Homepage is deindexed in Google
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We recently noticed that our primary page was de-indexed in Google. When looking in google search console there are no manual actions taken.
We did add a few new banners to the site but I have no idea why this would have negatively affected that site.
I did add a new page called https://enleaf.com/company/testimonials/ that had some duplicate testimonials that were also on the home page but have since removed that.
Not sure where to go from here.
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Glad you found the culprit. I was going to mention that this was probably it. If Googlebot sees noindex anywhere on the page it can cause the whole page to be deindexed. Sometimes it's really tricky to find as well.
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As much as I can
P.S. Please mark this answer as answered.
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I'm glad it was an easy fix. I was freaking out!! Thanks for the help.
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Wow. Weird.
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Nah, third-party scripts, especially Twitter ones wouldn't affect that. Quite strange situation.
Well, request fetch again, and then submit to google. Should work.
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Ah ha. Looks like that was it. That widget was pulling from a CDN that has a noindex tag in it. Removed that widget and I'm back!
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Googlebot type: Desktop(render requested) - Partial on Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 9:56:00 PM PST
I did notice a script that has a no index. I wonder if that is part of it. I think that belongs to a social media widget.
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what happens when you fetch within GSC?
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I just discovered this last night when checking our rankings. The home page changes were done late last week so I'm not sure why only now those would effect that.
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Howdy.
That is quite bizarre. I don't see anything wrong with code, headers or anything like that. When did you discover the problem? I wonder if you guys did something and fixed it without realizing, or the Google Search Console haven't updated the manual action yet.
Also, what happens if you do fetch as google on index page?
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