Blogs Not Getting Indexed Intermittently - Why?

[JohnBracamontes]

Over the past 5 months many of our clients are having indexing issues for their blog posts.
A blog from 5 months ago could be indexed, and a blog from 1 month ago could be indexed but blogs from 4, 3 and 2 months ago aren't indexed.

It isn't consistent and there is not commonality across all of these clients that would point to why this is happening.

We've checked sitemap, robots, canonical issues, internal linking, combed through Search Console, run Moz reports, run SEM Rush reports (sorry Moz), but can't find anything.

We are now manually submitting URLs to be indexed to try and ensure they get into the index.

Search console reports for many of the URLs will show that the blog has been fetched and crawled, but not indexed (with no errors).

In some cases we find that the blog paginated pages (i.e. blog/page/2 , blog/page/3 , etc.) are getting indexed but not the blogs themselves.

There aren't any nofollow tags on the links going to the blogs either.

Any ideas?

*I've added a screenshot of one of the URL inspection reports from Search Console

[PrettyBombshell]

Very interesting. I never thought of deleting a URL and creating a new one (a better one) and then creating a successful indexing. I'll have to keep that in mind if I need an important URL indexed.

[Tomalaweb]

@johnbracamontes Hello John, I would recommend you to verify if the content of these articles is similar to others in your blog, I would recommend you to download the featured image and add a description related to the title of your article, in the same way to verify that you only have an h1 in a beginning of the article and modify a little the titles h2 that you have..

[pau4ner]

Google has been much more picky about which pages they index lately, apart from suffering some indexing bugs. So yeah, indexing can be a real pain.

According to Google, when they crawl but do not index a blog post, it is probably due to content quality issues, either from that post or the website overall.

Based on what's worked for us, I'd suggest to substantially modify the content of those posts (adding content, images, etc), and then manually resubmitting them. If that doesn't index them, then delete the post, and publish the content in a new post URL —then submit it.

Hope that helps.

[indranilu]

I was facing the same problem again and again. I changed the URL and resubmitted it and it worked. I changed the URL again to the previous one and resubmitted it. It is now indexed on google.

[shugibugi84]

yes , I would like to hear , can you help me , thank you .

[JohnBracamontes]

Nothing?
Would love to hear any thoughts.