Google Stopped Indexing my website

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    Hello,

    I have been facing indexing issues with my website since I moved from virginsound.com.ng to virginsound.net. For instance, I have a post “https://www.virginsound.net/movies/hollywood/salt-2010/” which was published on the 14th of June, 2023 and the Google Search Console URL Inspection tool says it is indexed and available to Google but it is not showing up in google search even with site:https://www.virginsound.net/movies/hollywood/salt-2010/ search term.

    Secondly, my website’s sitemap never increase from 9,991 which it has been since the day I moved the website.

    Note: I don’t have any strike as my manual actions and security issues are perfectly ok.

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    We’ve checked your page but didn’t find any issues which will prevent this from being indexed on Google.

    However, please note that the site: operator doesn’t always give an accurate test, it often just returns a sample of URLs. The best way is to use the URL inspection tool of the GSC account to check whether any URL is indexed or not.

    Here’s what Google says about the site operator:

    If a URL is indexed in Google, it can show up in search results for site: queries that are related to the URL, however it’s not guaranteed. If a URL doesn’t show in a site: query, use the URL Inspection tool to make sure the URL can be indexed and to submit the URL to indexing.

    For more details, you can check this URL: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-operators/all-search-site

    Regarding your sitemap, if it is not updating, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:

    1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    3. If the above steps don’t seem to work, kindly apply the following filter to your site.

    add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
    

    Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
     
    Thank you.

    Thanks for your response, even after confirming that the link is very much available on Google and indexed as well, it doesn’t show on google search and same thing apply to all the majority of my website URL’s including the ones of 2019 when the website was launched.

    The URLs disappeared all of a sudden after I moved my website through the search console site move tool.

    Conducting a search of a particular post which is only available on my website, they won’t still show up. Even if I input my website name (VirginSound) at the end of my search terms on google, they won’t still come up.

    Hello,

    In this case, please head over to your Google Search Console and check for any coverage issues for that specific URL. This will help us determine why Google isn’t indexing that page.

    You may also submit that page in the GSC’s URL inspection tool and share a screenshot of the report here.

    You may use this tool https://imgur.com/ to share your screenshots here.

    Looking forward to helping you with this one.

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    I already added the screenshot as requested and I also observed some other issues which are not supposed to happen in the first place.

    Please help me check this out and assist me further.

    Thanks.

    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.

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