All of my pages are indexed except for 1\. How could that be?
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Yesterday we were ranking #4 for our main keyword and today we're not even indexed. Not robots.txt issue, we've just added a rel canonical to page and submitted our sitemap again. What else could we do?
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Thank you John!
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Have you checked for a manual penalty in webmaster tools? I don't think that's the problem, but it's worth a look.
My hunch is that you have a duplicate content problem. I haven't been SEO-ing for years, so I'm not familiar with what Google does in certain situations, but https://www.credible.com/refinance-student-loans and https://www.credible.com/student-loans are relatively similar: The testimonials are identical, the list of lenders is similar, and the structure of the two pages is nearly the same. I realize that one page is about getting a student loan in the first place, and the other is about refinancing, but I wonder if Google isn't making that distinction - especially since you're getting caught in the "we have omitted some entries very similar to the ... already displayed" filter.
Maybe someone else can chime in here too to confirm or deny the change. FWIW the two pages linked above were recently indexed by Google - March 14 and 13 respectively.
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Hi Dimitrii - Thanks for responding!
The link is: https://www.credible.com/refinance-student-loans. Yesterday we ranked #3 for "student loan refinancing" and today we're completely gone. What's even stranger is that when you go to page 22 http://imgur.com/RB33io2 and click on "repeat the search with the omitted results" we appear in the same position we were. So it seems like we're getting filtered out of the primary results, but why?
Thanks!
Paul
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Hi there.
What's the link? Are you sure it's actually not indexed, rather than just dropped in rankings? Also, you say that you added canonical link. I assume that you have added canonical link to page which was ranking? If there is no robots.txt issue, are meta robots used - it could be the problem.
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