Submitted URL not selected as canonical [Google Search Console / Webmaster Tools]

The URL is one of a set of duplicate URLs without an explicitly marked canonical page. You explicitly asked this URL to be indexed, but because it is a duplicate, and Google thinks that another URL is a better candidate for canonical, Google did not index this URL. Instead, we indexed the canonical that we selected. The difference between this status and “Google chose different canonical than user” is that, in this case, you explicitly requested indexing.

What To Do: If you are properly using canonical tags, there is nothing to do so long as you are using canonical tags to tell Google what page to prefer. It may not be necessary to include non-canonical URLs in your sitemap, but I have found it helpful as Google will index some of these non-canonical URLs and display them in the search results.

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  1. I move my site from example.com to example.net, i set 301 redirect for 2 months, in these two months everything was ok but when i remove 301 redirect , there was started to “Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical” there was about 600 pages that are not indexed rather Google is showing my old site links instead of new links….

    Can you give me guide to fix these issue?

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  2. I earlier had a website with the url livepainfree.com but now my new url is advancedcaretherapy.com. Google is taking canonical as livepainfree.com whereas I have already sold that domain and no longer exists.
    How to change Google’s Canonical URL? I couldn’t see any options to edit or change.

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