Blog hasn't ranked since reposting.

[danieldaher]

Hey Moz fam!

I had a blog that was doing pretty well for the target keyword. Unfortunately, to make a long story short, we had an image in it we weren't supposed to so I unpublished it for a few days while we got that sorted out. Since republishing (with all the same content) it has not gotten a single impression.

I inspected the URL and it is totally eligible but nothing in the way of organic traffic. Any ideas on how I can recover?

[danieldaher]

For sure there would have been better ways but it was the only option at the time. Like I said, its a very long story short on the image. Now, with that said, I have inspected the URL in GSC and it is indexed and ready to be shown by Google but the rankings have not come back.

[Dalerio-Consulting]

Well, first of all, I would say that it was a mistake unpublishing the blog, and are much better ways to handle the situation.

Now, when you say "unpublish", do you mean you had them de-indexed through the search console? If so, then you should check back the search console and see the "coverage" section on whether the pages are indexed or not. If they have started to index, you can do a "live test" and "indexation request" to speed up the process. Otherwise, check to remove the un-indexing request. From past experience, I can say that the previous rank is restored fully, but it only takes some time for Google to index the pages.

Daniel Rika - Dalerio Consulting
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