Crawl at a stand still
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Hello Moz'ers,
More questions about my Shopify migration...it seems that I'm not getting indexed very quickly (it's been over a month since I completed the migration) - I have done the following:
- used an Seo app to find and complete redirects (right away)
- used the same app to straighten out title tags, metas and alt tags
- submitted the sitemap
- re-submitted my main product URL's via Fetch
- checked the Console - no reported blocks or crawl errors
I will mention that I had to assign my blog to a sub-domain because Shopify's blog platform is awful. I had a lot of 404's on the blog, but fixed those. The blog was not a big source of traffic (I'm an ecomm business) Also, I didn't have a lot of backlinks, and most of those came along anyway.
I did have a number of 8XX and 9XX errors, but I spoke to Shopify about them and they found no issues. In the meantime, those issues pretty much disappeared in the MOZ reporting.
Any duplicate page issues now have a 200 code since I straightened out the title tags.
So what am I missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Sharon
www.zeldassong.com -
Hi Dan,
Thank you so very much!! I think things have caught up...I chatted with Google a few days ago and they said everything is ok. I am starting to see some keywords surface; it probably will kick in shortly, as I did quite a bit of SEO work with the new site.
I very much appreciate your help!
Best,
Sharon
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Hi Sharon
Is there specific content or pages you're not seeing indexed that should be?
I checked with a site search and see that about 282 pages are indexed right now. I crawled the site, got about 578 active URLs, and subtracting /wp-content/ URLs and subpages, that leaves about 280ish URLs (correction, 380ish), which is the number indexed in Google. which is only 100 more than the number indexed in Google.
Perhaps things caught up, let me know if there's a URL not indexed that you expect to be.
Thanks!
-Dan
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Hi Nicolas,
Yes, I did. I chatted with Google twice on Saturday, and they assured me that the site is being crawled - so, I dunno. I will wait a week or so and recheck the console and MOZ stats.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Sharon
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Hello,
Have you send a new sitemap to help Google knows new URLs ?
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