Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
I’ve checked your site, and indeed that your URLs are not indexed. Although, your sitemap and robots.txt seem fine.
Could you please check your Google Search Console account’s coverage section so we can further investigate? You can send screenshot links using this tool.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Here is the coverage section image link. https://ibb.co/0Fs4F2R
Hello,
The link you have shared is not working. Could you please check?
Thank you.
Hello,
We can see in your screenshot that there are 587 pages in the Excluded section.
Could you please click on that section and check the reason for the exclusion? You can also share a screenshot of the exclusion section so that we can understand the insights of the issue.
I searched the website on Google and currently, there are 3 URLs indexed: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fneedforgaming.com&rlz=1C1CHZN_enIN948IN948&oq=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fneedforgaming.com&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1169j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Also, upon checking the variations of your sitemap using https://httpstatus.io/, I found that there are double 301 redirections in the HTTP + WWW variation.
Please ensure that only a single 301 redirection is be applied to the non-preferred variations of the website.
Except for the preferred variation (which should return only a 200 status), all the non-preferred variations of the website should redirect to the preferred variation and return only a 301 + 200 status. You can get in touch with your web host to fix this.
Once done, clear your website’s cache and remove all the sitemaps from your Google Search Console account, and then submit only the main sitemap: /sitemap_index.xml.
Further, give Google some time to crawl your website again and see if the issue gets fixed.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
Thanks, Prabhat Rai, we will fix the chain redirect issue. My question is will it affect google or bing webmaster guidelines.
Here is the excluded link image https://ibb.co/cyRt1cb
Hello,
Since you have an old website, would you please tell us if these pages were indexed before and recently got removed by Google from the SERPS? Or were these pages never got indexed in the first place?
Note that Discovered – currently not indexed means page was found by Google, but not crawled yet. Typically, Google wanted to crawl the URL but this was expected to overload the site; therefore Google rescheduled the crawl. This is why the last crawl date is empty on the report.
You can learn more about here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you
In “Crawled – currently not indexed” maximum URLs are feeds of pages and posts but as you say, some pages were never got indexed by google. We have only 11 pages or posts that were never indexed by google.
Hello,
Could you please inspect the URL of any page on the website that is not indexed, using the URL Inspection Tool in Google Search Console, and see what comes as the output?
Also, I tested and found that the variations of the sitemap are correctly redirecting to the preferred variation.
In this case, please follow this guide to exclude the sitemaps from being cached: https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
Once done, clear your website’s cache and remove all the sitemaps from your Google Search Console account, and then submit only the main sitemap: /sitemap_index.xml.
Further, give Google some time to crawl your website again and see if the issue gets fixed.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
link of the URL that is not indexed in Google yet… https://ibb.co/31cCQSz
However, we have already excluded the sitemaps from being cached.
Hello,
Crawled, currently not indexed, simply means that the page was crawled but is yet to be indexed. There can be several reasons for this.
I suggest you double-check the points mentioned in this article on a few pages that are affected here and wait for Google to crawl the website again and see if the pages are indexed:
https://moz.com/blog/crawled-currently-not-indexed-coverage-status
You can also have a look at this guide for more details:
https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
One strange thing I have noticed is that the search console shows only 76 URLs in the sitemap files. This issue was here since 4 August 2020. Sitemap file updates daily basis but only shows 76 URLs, any idea about that.
Here is the image link of the sitemap: https://ibb.co/HBj8h5C
Hello,
I can check that you have also submitted your post sitemap with the main sitemap. Since other URLs are already being discovered from the post sitemap it shouldn’t cause any issues. If Google has discovered all the URLs then you don’t have to worry about anything.
Hope this clarifies your doubts. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need any other assistance.
Thanks.
You haven’t given my answer of 76 URLs
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
