Homepage is deindexed in Google
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Happened sometime on the 12th or 13th of Feb (is there a way to tell exactly besides referring to GA?).
I've been on the Google Webmasters Tools forums trying to nail this down - https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/webmasters/OgpmNCc3IFA/mmtgUilyXUUJI can only think that Google is viewing this as duplicate content from an internal page for example: http://mudlifeled.com/shop
Very frustrating because we were moving up on the first page for some good brand key words and traffic was climbing.
Now I've got my hands up and am at a loss to what I can do.
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Glad I could help
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Back in business! Thanks for the help Chris!
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ok...think we are getting somewhere. When I typed this in google by accident: site://www.mudlifeled.com
The page shows up:
https://www.mudlifeled.com
Since I had the https page set to noindex - Google was not indexing it. But it still doesn't explain why the http was not indexed and why all of a sudden it is now deindexed when the way I had the site setup has been crawled like this for almost a year? Maybe Google saw enough backlinks to https and said: "hey - we want to use the https version instead. Too bad you have it set to noindex"?Now that I have the canonical displaying from https to http on all pages - I'm hoping it reverts back to the http version and I get my keyword rank back. As of right now - I'm not seeing it in G's SERPs. fingers crossed
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It could have just needed some more time for the canonical to work, still a bit on the odd side of things..
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Now the index is showing:
<cite class="_Rm">www.mudlifeled.com/?taxonomy=product_type&term=simple</cite>
as the first result of a site: lookup
ugh
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Yeah me too
It seems others can see the home page with site:www.mudlifeled.com outside the USA. But not inside of the USA.
Everything is good from the the suggested link.
I'm banging my head against my desk...lol
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I'm a little stumped, as it should be working (and is for me) you could try giving it a bit more time with that canonical to take affect. I've tried looking via a proxy and i can't see it in American search compared to the UK search.
did you try looking through here - http://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed
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I'm not seeing the homepage yet :(. Though using the canonical method did jiggle some lower level pages back into the index. Yikes - this is weird. Any other suggestions?
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Just an update: seems to be working now for me (I was unable to see homepage before)
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No the canonical makes the robots surplus, it tells Google its a duplicate of where ever you pointed the tag to, this also means any links also sort of get redirected too (in a sense)
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I ask because it seems that viewers can see the homepage outside the USA.
One of the first things I did when I took over the site in April of 2014 was claim both in webmasters tools.
I have made the canonical change as suggested. Should I keep the meta robots tag as well?
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I am located in the UK, however I am also finding it odd.
Couple of things I'd look into is to claim both http & https in webmaster tools, rather than block the robots, change it for a canonical tag which tells Google you're preferred domain and also can help with your link juice flow.
Have to admit I'm in a bit of a pickle though..
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Fetch is good. No errors with fetch or render.
The only update I made was from WooCommerce 2.2 to 2.3. This has not effected the output or markup of anything of importance.
Are you located in the USA?
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No manual webspam actions found.
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You can check here - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
your site >Search Traffic > Manual actions
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From what I can tell - I have no manual penalty.
Is there a way to check this outside Webmasters Tools?
I'm not seeing the homepage at all in the index. I've checked on outside computers with myself not being logged into google here in Florida.
My analytic data is confirming that there is a definite drop of hits to the homepage. -
a canonical link would work better and mean you're not shooting your self in the foot so much see more here -
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
how does fetch as Google work out for you? Did you also review what you were doing prior to this happening to see if a change you made has triggered this?
edit
One quick thought did you set up https redirects on the main homepage correctly and that's whats causing you an issue?
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for the reply.
All HTTPS is blocked by design to keep from any possible duplicates with HTTP.
Michael Shinosky
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Hi Keszi,
Thanks for the reply.
Being a WordPress site - I have not touched the format of the canonical tags since I took over managing the website in April of 2014.
Michael Shinosky
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Your main site is index when I'm looking, you've blocked some of your pages with a noindex and nofollow tag in your meta robots which wont be helping you
e.g. https://www.mudlifeled.com/product-category/aurora-d-series/
try to remove the meta robots tag, (this overrides the robots.txt)
Good news your main page is indexed by Google, also if you do have to noindex a page at least it follow.
EDIT I also assume you don't have any sort of manual penalty and that you have checked
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Hi Michael,
I am not quite sure, but I have a gut feeling telling me it has something to do with your canonical tags. When did you implement those? (cannot run a crawl now, but I will surely check it out in the evening).
Gr., Keszi
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