Hello,
Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Would you please confirm did you follow the steps mentioned in this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsNMw-P4qI
Also, would you please share the affected URLs with us?
Looking forward to helping you.
Hi,
As told earlier, my articles are not getting indexed by google. I did the indexing process with the help of a youtube tutorial but it didn’t work.
I have already used the method mentioned in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsNMw-P4qI
The affected URL is shortformnews.com
Is there any other information that i need to share?
Thanks very much,
Apurva Bakshi
9888211770
Hello,
I’ve checked your site using site: operator, and some of your URLs are already indexed.
Please note that it is completely normal for a newly published post/page/website to take time before it gets crawled or indexed by Google. It depends on a lot of factors. Your posting frequency + the domain authority are just two of the many factors Google considers when indexing some new URLs.
Google assigns a crawl budget to your website depending on these factors (especially these two) and that has a direct effect on how soon or how late your content can get indexed:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2017/01/what-crawl-budget-means-for-googlebot
Also, Instant Indexing helps your website’s pages and content to be crawled instantly. Using Instant Indexing does not always result in the indexation of the content as it may take anywhere from minutes to days or even weeks before a URL is indexed. Using the plugin doesn’t guarantee that your pages will show up in the search results.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hi Reinelle,
Thanks for the response. I understand your point, but the issue is that I plan to start posting news and hence want t be sure if the articles are getting indexed or not instantly. Is there a sureshot way of finding out if there are any issues with the site that can be resolved? I could share my password with you and could you please be kind enough to check if anything needs to be fixed, and possibly fix it?
FOR EXAMPLE:
Recently I got an email from google that there Is an error called Soft 404.
OR
You requested that Google validate your fix of Page indexing issues on site https://shortformnews.com/. The fix requested was for the following issue: ‘Crawled – currently not indexed’.
However, we found that some pages are still affected by this issue.
To examine full details on the validation progress, and to learn how to fix remaining pages, please follow this link.
OR
Page indexing issues detected in https://shortformnews.com/
To the owner of https://shortformnews.com/:
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 3 Page indexing issue(s). The following issues were found on your site.
Top Issues
Not found (404)
Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag
Page with redirect
We recommend that you fix these issues when possible to enable the best experience and coverage in Google Search.
I hope I’m able to explain my concern. Could you please check?
Thanks
Apurva Bakshi
9888211770
Hello,
There’s no guarantee that your news posts will be indexed right away especially since your website is somehow new and doesn’t have much content yet at the moment.
To ensure that Google is able to index your news content, you may need to establish a dedicated News Sitemap for your website but that feature is only available for our PRO plan.
But before that, we need to address the issues you have shared and the issues I also noticed on your websiote.
1. Your sitemap is currently returning a 404 which might be the reason that some of your pages are not indexed as Google hasn’t discovered it yet. To fix that, please refer to this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/sitemap-404-error/
2. Here we have a dedicated guide to address the issues sent by GSC to you:
Not found (404): https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-404-errors/
Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag: https://rankmath.com/kb/excluded-by-noindex-tag/
Page with redirect: https://rankmath.com/kb/page-with-redirect/
However, if this doesn’t work, please share the 3 affected URLs here so we can take a closer look at them.
Looking forward to helping 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.
