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Srikanth V
03/21/2023, 11:53 AMHi Harshini - how many pages fall into the bucket of 'crawled but not indexed'. It does happen sometimes. There is an option to request for reindexing
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 11:55 AMInterestingly when I got to the individual pages it’s not even been crawled. I’ve requested 2 pages to be indexed one being the homepage. I assumed if it crawls the homepage it will index all linking pages as well but that didn’t happen. It indexed only the homepage 😂
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Srikanth V
03/21/2023, 12:53 PMAlright. Can you check meta tags are not set to noindex, nofollow?
Srikanth V
03/21/2023, 12:54 PMAnd indexing typically takes a few days. So give it sometime
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 1:24 PMYea I've done the basic checks. there's no nofollow. I've been doing SEO for many years now but never faced an issue like this. I submitted the sitemap more than a month ago it's still not crawled
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 1:48 PMHi @Harshini, now that you have done all the basic checks, also try adding an internal link from other pages(if performing pages then great) to the not-indexed ones. As relevant of course. Another opportunity for crawlers to come across the pages.
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Sreeram Sharma
03/21/2023, 1:51 PMIf it's crawled not indexed, check for the quality of content. By quality I mean is the information/structure similar to what you find on thousands of other pages that are already indexed.
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:05 PMThanks @Aiswarya Menon and @Sreeram Sharma for your suggestions. To set some context, its a brand new website and with a new domain since it's being set up for the first time. It's for a small organisation so there aren't many pages right now. Here's the website link to give you some idea: http://silkdesigns.co
My only hunch is that content is a little less. But that can't even be the problem right now since search console says that the sitemap was read but there were 0 discoverable pages. So Not sure what's going wrong there cause the sitemap is working fine. Checked it multiple times. I'm using Yoast SEO so it's the auto generated sitemap that I am using.
Also when I check the individual page, it shows last crawled as NA so I don't think its not being indexed due to low content or bad technical stuff. It looks like something is wrong at a more fundamental level.
Let me know what you think
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:07 PMIn that case, especially if there aren’t many pages, you can manually request indexing like Srikanth said, and ensure there are internal links to the page.
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:09 PMHmm yea so I've already manually requested for 2 pages. One (the homepage) is indexed and linked to all other pages, but the other pages didn't get recognized. This site is going to have blog articles launched soon, and I'm worried that this issue will continue, so I'm trying to solve it at the root to avoid this in the future
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Sreeram Sharma
03/21/2023, 2:09 PMThe homepage is indexed @Harshini, use the site: operator
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:10 PMYes yes, that's what I mentioned na.. I manually indexed that
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:10 PM@Harshini Only the homepage is indexed? How long has it been since the site has been live?
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:10 PMabout a month
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Sreeram Sharma
03/21/2023, 2:12 PMHave you submitted - https://silkdesigns.co/page-sitemap.xml ?
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:13 PMYes, I've submitted the parent sitemap which is https://silkdesigns.co/sitemap_index.xml and the page sitemap is under the index one
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:13 PMIn one case I have seen sitemaps having a no-index command at the very top. If I’m not wrong when crawlers encounter this, the entire list of URLs are skipped. Not sure if this is relevant for you, worth checking.
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:14 PMOh let me check
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:15 PMJust checked, doesn't seem to be the problem. There's no noindex on the sitemap
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:21 PMThe site is mobile friendly as per the testing tool. So that’s good. Which pages aren’t indexed from these? I checked 3 from Pages list, they are crawled.
Blog is indexed too*
Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:24 PMPerformance can be improved. Some sources site this could hinder indexing. JavaScript issues are common.
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Adesh Sonawane
03/21/2023, 2:24 PMOn what stacks website built on?
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:25 PMWordpress - divi theme
Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:28 PM@Aiswarya Menon where did you check the indexing?
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Adesh Sonawane
03/21/2023, 2:28 PMyou can go to google search console.
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:29 PM@Harshini Googles mobile friendly testing tool. It showed last crawl was today.
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:29 PMYou mean pagespeed insights?
Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:32 PMThat's really weird @Aiswarya Menon cause search console is still showing indexed as 1
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:33 PMOk also realised search console data is 2 days backdated.. so maybe it will reflect in a few days
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:34 PMNo. Not pagespeed. Sorry my bad, not indexed data but crawled.
• https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=2SEnJIKYgfM7Tsl6siuOBw
• https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=LAb43sVWsUTi1JgpdExZKQ
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Harshini
03/21/2023, 2:35 PMYes, the crawl info mentioned on mobile friendly tool is just the info of when the test was run.
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Aiswarya Menon
03/21/2023, 2:35 PMRight! These were two potential factors some sources cited could be issues. So checked! 🙌
gratitude thank you 1
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Anurag Pandey
03/23/2023, 6:39 PMIf you domain is new then your website is in now sandbox period and if you guy's produce content poor then this is initial not good signal for you..pls check Canonical and also resubmit your sitemap in google...and be patience within a month your website start getting indexing and crawling
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