Specific pages won't index
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I have a few pages on my site that Google won't index, and I can't understand why. I've looked into possible issues with Robots, noindex, redirects, canonicals, and Search Console rules. I've got nothing.
Example:
I want this page to index https://tour.franchisebusinessreview.com/services/franchisee-satisfaction-surveys/
When I Google the full URL, I get results including the non-subdomain homepage, and various pages on the subdomain, including a child page of the page I want, but not the page itself.
Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
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You can also submit to Google without using Search Console. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=submit+url+to+google&oq=submit+url+to+google&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2372j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (Search "Submit URL To Google") and then just paste your url in. You can do this to any url.
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Thanks, Sergio. I'm not an expert but I don't see why the sitemap wouldn't pick it up. The page is linked to the homepage via the top navigation. Other pages in that navigation have been indexed.
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Thanks Martijn and Joe. I'll try submitting the page as you recommend. Our site relaunched in November 2016 so this particular page (and many others) are new to the site as of that date.
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I agree with Martijn here, the XML sitemap is certainly important but you can also request that Google index this URL specifically through the 'Fetch as Google' Tool. Just FETCH that URL and select "Request indexing" once it has completed.
As for why Google has not indexed this page before now, I not seeing too many reasons other than what has been mentioned. When did this page go live?
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Yeps, what I want to add here is that Sitemaps will only help in getting Google to crawl and know about the more pages when they're in the sitemaps. For small sites I really doubt it will have an impact on getting them indexed.
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The answer has to be at sitemaps of the website...
You can submit a url to Google with: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?hl=es
Have you looked that the structure of the web does not make the sitemaps obviate it?
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That would definitively help. In addition I would look into still adding the pages manually through the Submit to Index feature.
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Thanks, Martijn. Our webmaster discovered that the page in question was not included in the sitemap we submitted to SC. The question of why still needs to be answered.
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Hi,
That's not fun, have you tried adding these pages to Google Search Console and submitting them to the Index from there?
Martijn.
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