Site Not Being Indexed
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Hey Everyone - I have a site that is being treated strangely by google (at least strange to me) The site has 24 pages in the sitemap - submitted to WMT'S over 30 days ago
I've manually triggered google to crawl the homepage and all connecting links as well and submitted a couple individually.
Google has been parked the indexing at 14 of the 24 pages. None of the unindexed URL's have Noindex or follow tags on them - they are clearly and easily linked to from other places on the site. The site is a brand new domain, has no manual penalty history and in my research has no reason to be considered spammy. 100% unique handwritten content
I cannot figure out why google isn't indexing these pages.
Has anyone encountered this before? Know any solutions? Thanks in advance.
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Some of your pages lack enough content or unique content for Google to care:
This: http://carpetcleanertn.com/carpet-cleaning-specials/ isn't indexed. But then, why would it be?
http://carpetcleanertn.com/carpet-cleaning-spring-hill-tn/ this isn't indexed - but ... yeah.
No content except an image on this either: http://carpetcleanertn.com/gift-certificates/
None at all here: http://carpetcleanertn.com/great-nashville-area/
Your pricing & services page aren't being indexed but that's because they're near-copies of the actual chemdry page. See attachment.
I think if you wrote clean, new copy for the pricing & services page you'd see them get indexed but since they're super-close to the original, Google has chosen to only index one.
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Thanks Matt - I've sent a Private Message.
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Thanks Andrew -
http://screencast.com/t/j9ewBBXjvuy
I think we're clear there?
I checked some of the specific pages (that haven't been indexed) and googlebot is showing no errors there.
Thanks,
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Gaston -
I did, and I should have mentioned that at the start -
It shows 18 indexed - a couple junk internal pages (that I need to pull!) and that weren't even in the sitemap that I submitted.
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PM the URL or post it here so we can take a look. Generally this is a case of:
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No indexed links yet
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Duplicate content
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Robots meta tag or robots.txt
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Content not actually in the site (iframes, other coding issues)
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Content in an image/flash/other unreadable or nearly unreadable format.
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Great question.
As recommended by Andrew, I would definitely check your site's robots.txt file to ensure those pages or sections of the site aren't being blocked.
Secondly, I would check your sitemap and make sure there aren't any errors within it. Often times if your sitemap is inaccurate Google might decide to not index certain pages.
Doing a site:search for your website will help you understand what pages are showing up as well. Beyond this, you can do a site:search and enter a keyword for one of the landing pages that isn't being indexed by Google. If that page shows up, you know it's indexed.
Often times GSC doesn't give us 100% accurate data and therefore it's good to do these checks yourself. It's important to note that Google doesn't have to index certain pages if it doesn't find them useful for one reason or another. This is something we don't have much control of, however I doubt that is the case here.
Do the steps I mentioned above and let me know if you find anything interesting. Respond with your findings and we can try and get to the bottom of your specific issue. Hope that helps!
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Hello,
You mentioned that none of the pages have noindex/nofollow tags, but have you also checked your robots.txt file to verify that they aren't blocked there?
-Andrew B.
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Hi there,
Is well known that Search console usualy has those error, that displays information that is not accurate.
Have you tried to search that site? Using site:yoursite.com? There you will confirm how many pages are indexed.Hope it helps.
GR.
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