Hello,
We apologize for the indexing issues you are facing with your recent blog articles. Thank you for providing detailed information about your setup; it helps us understand the situation better.
Based on what you’ve shared, here are a few things to consider that might help resolve the indexing problems:
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Internal Linking Structure: Ensure that your important pages have internal links from other relevant pages on your website. This can help Google discover and index them more effectively. You can set your important pages as pillar content and let Rank Math suggest relevant internal links.
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Duplicate Content: Check if the pages you’re trying to index are duplicated elsewhere on your website. If you find duplicates, consider adding a canonical tag pointing to the original content that you want to index.
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Content Quality: Conduct a content audit to identify any outdated or low-quality content that may be affecting your site’s overall quality score. Improving or removing such content can positively impact your indexing status.
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Sitemap Issues: Make sure that your sitemap is correctly submitted to Google Search Console and that it reflects the latest changes on your site. You can refer to our guide on fixing sitemap issues for more details.
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Monitoring Indexation Status: Utilize the Index Status report in Rank Math’s Analytics to keep an eye on your pages’ indexation status. This can help you identify any specific issues that may arise.
If you’ve checked all these aspects and are still experiencing issues, it might be beneficial to have a professional review your Rank Math setup to ensure everything is configured correctly according to the latest SEO standards. You can consider our professional setup service for comprehensive assistance, which requires a PRO subscription.
If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please feel free to reply to this ticket, and a human agent from our support team will take over and assist you further.
Thank you for reaching out, and we hope this helps resolve your indexing issues!
Sources:
How to Fix "Crawled – Currently Not Indexed" Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Why Did My Website Disappear From Google Search? » Rank Math
This is an automated reply from Rank Math Support Bot. Your ticket has been assigned to a human agent and we will get back to you shortly.
I’ve already checked all the aspects listed and need a human agent.
Hello,
We’ve checked your robots.txt, and you have a rule to disallow URLs on your site.
Disallow: /blog/*/*
The URL you shared matches the rule inside your robots.txt, so crawling those is blocked by that rule.
Here’s a guide you can follow to edit your robots.txt:
https://rankmath.com/kb/cant-edit-robots-txt/
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello Reinelle,
Thanks for your reply. I just want to clarify something: this rule should only apply to URLs with two levels after /blog (e.g. /blog/fr/article), not to single-slug articles like /blog/sales-navigator-personas.
From my understanding, https://evaboot.com/blog/sales-navigator-personas does not match that disallow rule.
Could you please double-check whether RankMath might be outputting something else (meta robots, canonical tags, schema, or sitemap directives) that could explain why new posts like this are being de-indexed?
Thanks!
Hi Reinelle,
I just wanted to follow up on my message above to make sure you see it, as this issue is rather urgent for us.
Looking forward to your answer.
Thanks,
Ophélie
Hello,
We sincerely apologize for the unexpected delay in our response and for the confusion.
You’re correct, the URL you’ve shared is not blocked by the robots.txt. We went ahead and checked the page further, but were not able to find any issue there that may deindex the URL from SERPs:
Also, the page is currently indexed on Google:
If you face the issue again with some other URLs, please test them in the URL Inspection Tool and share the screenshot of the result with us: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289?hl=en
You can use any image-sharing tool like https://imgur.com/upload to share the screenshot with us so that we can check the issue further for you.
However, it looks like you’re currently using the Rank Math PRO plugin on your websites, but the account you have used to open this ticket is the Rank Math free version.
Please search and forward a receipt from FastSpring.com so we can locate your account and verify it.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for your reply. If the issue comes up again with other URLs, I’ll make sure to share a screenshot.
I work at Evaboot but I wasn’t the one who initially set up RankMath, so I created this account to open the ticket. If you need to verify the license, the user and email address associated with the purchase is j***********@e**********
Best,
Ophélie
Hello,
Sure! Let us know how it goes.
Meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Following up on my previous message: could you please check and let me know if your indexing logic is overriding or not applying noindex properly on our redirected URLs with parameters (e.g. URLs like cx_tag_filter or page=xx)?
Thank you.
Hello,
We deeply apologize for the unexpected delay in response. This ticket has been stuck in our drafts section for some reason.
We checked the referring page URL, and we can see it is returning a 200 status code and is currently set to index.
Please note that the referring page is not related to the indexing issue of your page. It only shows where Google has found this URL.
However, most of the time when a page shows as “Crawled – currently not indexed,” it’s because the Google algorithm believes that the content of the pages won’t add anything to the current results that can be found for the same topics, so it holds off on indexing.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/
Hope that helps, and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
Thanks for your answer. You could be right for the last page I sent, but some of the pages that got deindexed before this one were previously high-ranking and driving clicks on topics with very little similar content. This makes me think there might be additional factors at play. I’ll keep an eye on the situation on my side.
Best regards,
Ophélie
Hello,
That is fine.
Please do let us know how it goes. You can also share some other affected URLs with us so that we can check.
This ticket will be kept open so you can update us here. However, if it has been closed by the bot, please don’t hesitate to create a new ticket and reference this ticket here.
Meanwhile, we checked that the email you shared earlier is associated with a PRO account.
To avoid confusion with the accounts, we can merge the emails so you can use only one.
Please let us know the preferred email address, and we will do what is necessary. Please share the email ID in the format below:
Make this email primary: { preferred primary email here }
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Once we receive your confirmation, we will merge the accounts.
We look forward to hearing from you.
