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Search Console flagged four reasons on 2026-07-28: soft 404, both duplicate-canonical variants, and noindex. All four sat on docs.snapotter.com; the landing site was clean. The cause was boilerplate dominance rather than a broken tag. /tools/video/crop-video carries 1.3 KB of unique body against 3.5 KB of identical chrome (nav, sidebar, 21-language switcher), so unrelated tool docs measured 52-60% full-page similarity. Across 20 locales that was 3,640 of 3,822 submitted URLs. Google read the lot as one duplicate cluster and began electing arbitrary representatives: /changelog became the canonical for /tools/image/favicon, and /uk/guide/getting-started for /nl/tools/image/resize. English tool docs indexed 2 of 10 and localized 4 of 10, while the landing page for those same five tools indexed 5 of 5. Translated pages now emit `noindex, follow` with a self-canonical, and sitemap.transformItems drops them from the sitemap. Self-canonical rather than pointing at English, since noindex paired with a cross-canonical sends two conflicting instructions. hreflang is removed outright: the annotation only means something between pages that can all be indexed. Readers see no change. The language switcher and every in-page link behave exactly as before. Verified against a real build: sitemap 3,822 to 182 URLs with zero translated entries, all 3,640 translated files carrying the noindex and no English file doing so, docs e2e 100 passed.