My Website stopped being in the Google Index
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Hi there,
So My website is two weeks old, and I published it and it was ranking at about page 10 or 11 for a week maybe a bit longer. The last few days it dropped off the rankings, which I assumed was the google algorithm doing its thing but when I checked Google Search Console it says my domain is not in the index.
'This page is not in the index, but not because of an error. See the details below to learn why it wasn't indexed.'
I click request indexing, then after a bit, it goes green saying it was successfully indexed. Then when I refresh the website it gives me the same message 'This page is not in the index, but not because of an error. See the details below to learn why it wasn't indexed.'
Not sure why it says this, any ideas or help is appreciated cheers.
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Hi, seem to of figured it out, cheers anyways.
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Would you be willing to share your URL so I can take a look at some things?
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CoveragePage with redirectDiscoverySitemapsN/AReferring pageNone detectedURL might be known from other sources that are currently not reportedCrawlLast crawlMay 5, 2020, 6:52:51 AMCrawled asGooglebot desktopCrawl allowed?YesPage fetchSuccessfulIndexing allowed?Yes
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