Website homepage temporarily getting removed from google index

[manikbystadium]

hi,

website: www.snackmagic.com

The home page goes out of google index for some hours and then comes back. We are not sure why our home page is getting de-indexed temporarily.

This doesn't happen with other pages on our website.

This has been happening intermittently in the gap of 2-3 days.

Any inputs will be very useful for us to debug this issue

Thanks

[Vanderlindemedia]

De-indexed would mean it is removed from google search completely. Your having a 'temporarily' being shown and not shown into search. This usually is the result of a bad backlink profile happening, so i'd suggest to check the most recent placed links, and adjust accordingly.

[Advanced-Air-Ambulance]

Hey.

I'm going to bounce off of Will here and recommend you check Search Console first. If you are de-indexed, it should display the reason on URL inspection, under index status. If you are really getting de-indexed and re-indexed within days, you are being recrawled frequently, so at least that's one good sign.

[willcritchlow]

This sounds tricky - it appears to be indexed for me at the moment.

Some things to check:

1. Server monitoring - is the website up and available at all times (including e.g. robots.txt)?
2. Server logs - are you serving any status code other than 200 to googlebot at any point?
3. Search Console - are there any errors recorded, or if you go to the URL inspector during an outage, has it canonicalised the homepage to any other page somehow?
4. I noticed a heavy reliance on JavaScript - and some of the text that appears on the homepage doesn't appear to be returning the homepage on a search for it in quotes (e.g. ["Not just any old snack box, SnackMagic lets everyone customize"] so I'd check for JS rendering issues for googlebot as well

Hope something there helps.