Google crawling/indexing issues for no good reason

#280063
  • Resolved Jurgen Kraus
    Rank Math free

    Hi,
    First thank you very much for such a great SEO tool.

    The blog https://www.audioreviews.org

    has indexing issues with Google. Not a single post has been indexed in the last 10 days.

    Rankmath SEO score is 98/100 (the only issue is opengraph images, which I have added…so it should be 100)
    Sitemap exists on Google and all recent blog posts appear in it
    No alt tag issues
    Robots.txt file is ok
    I have not added any noindex tags, everything should be indexible
    Page response time is great
    There is also no issue with the content. It is just a bunch of blog articles

    Google console does not report any issues such as not being mobile friendly etc.

    I have no idea what the problem could be.

    Please send your reply to j*****@m*****

    Thank you very much.

    JĆ¼rgen

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  • Hello,

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

    I can check that all the settings like robots meta, sitemap, and Schema is fine on your site. And as you have already mentioned that there are no errors in the GSC account regarding your posts, then all you can do is wait for Google to crawl and index your latest post.

    Please note that it is completely up to Google if they want to index or not index your posts. So, if you haven’t willingly or accidentally made your posts noindex and Google still isn’t indexing your page – it means that either Google doesn’t want to index or hasn’t crawled your page yet because it hasn’t allocated that much crawl budget to your website.

    Please check this website for more details.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Hello,

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

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Please use the URL inspection tool in your GSC account to ask Google for a manual indexing request. You can also keep an eye on the coverage section of GSC to get notified if any issue or error shows up for the affected posts.

    If Google still doesn’t decide to index those posts even after crawling your site again then there is nothing you can do other than wait.

    Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to your update.

    Thanks.

    Thank you very much for your reply.

    I thought this would be an interesting case for you.

    Yep, Google decides what to index, but it is strange that they stopped indexing the latest blog posts altogether – and therefore systematically.

    I cleaned the site up and added noindex tags to outdated pages.

    The same issue had happened a couple of months ago. I deleted all but one of the tags for each non-indexed posts…and everything was eventually indexed – with a 12 day delay.

    So, maybe the numerous tags confuse Google.

    There is one thing Google complained about: overuse of H1 headlines. We are also fixing that.

    Oh, I checked other sites with comparable alexa.org rankings (that are listing higher than us) using your online SEO analysis. Their scores were frequently much below ours.

    Thanks again,
    JĆ¼rgen

    I did submit URLs manually and always keep an eye on their reports.

    Hello,

    Let us know how that goes.

    Meanwhile, please donā€™t hesitate to contact us anytime if you have other questions to assist you further with anything else.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Actually, Google tells me in their report:

    Search Console
    Property not in account
    You are verified to see sc-domain://, but it’s not in your account.

    Add property now

    Erm…no idea what that means, but pushing that “add property now” button doesn’t do much.

    I had only added the domain to Google Console…I now added the https URL prefix, too.

    Prabhat
    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    Could you confirm if you’re using the Legacy (old) of Google Search Console?

    As you’ve added the URL prefix, the issue should have been fixed now. Could you please confirm?

    You can also have a look at this thread for a quick reference:
    https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/25841919/property-not-in-account-you-are-verified-to-see-sc-domain-but-it-s-not-in-your-account?hl=en

    Looking forward to hearing back from you.

    Thank you.

    I am using the current Console…which has legacy tools at the bottom of the left sidebar…I usually don’t touch these,

    I took a screenshot:
    https://i.imgur.com/Le4dgZL.jpg

    What I think: Google is thinking the latest blog URLS do not belong to the domain…so it is a Google error.

    I checked all 315 excluded URLs: prior to 10 days ago, all excluded ones are redundant images etc., but not complete blog posts.

    Hello,

    It seems that you already marked this ticket as ā€œResolvedā€.

    Do you still need our assistance regarding this issue?

    I would like to start checking with your sitemap file but it seems it is showing a different format and it is without style as you can see in this screenshot: sitemap

    Please follow the step shown on this video screencast to refresh your sitemap: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    After that, remove your sitemaps from your GSC and resubmit the primary sitemap from your website (sitemap_index.xml). This will allow Google to recrawl your latest URLs as well and check if you can still see the errors shown on your GSC

    As for your SEO Analysis error, the score seems to be 100 now as you would want it.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thanks,
    Issue should be resolved after that, BUT: link doesn’t work and screenshot does not show.

    Thanks

    Done. Thanks a bunch. There is nothing else we can do but wait…I will let you know how it worked.

    Call it resolved.

    Thanks again.

    Hello,

    You’re welcome and we’re glad that helped.

    Let us know if the issue still persists after following the steps that my colleague mentioned above.

    Meanwhile, please donā€™t hesitate to contact us anytime if you have other questions to assist you further with anything else.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    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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