Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with Google Search Console not indexing your site. It sounds frustrating, especially since you’ve already taken many of the necessary steps to ensure your site is indexed.
Since you mentioned that your website has been indexed and crawled by Bing without any issues, it could indicate a specific problem with how Google is interpreting your site. Here are a few additional steps you might consider:
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Manual Indexing Request: If you haven’t done so already, you can submit a manual indexing request to Google. This can sometimes help in getting your pages indexed more quickly.
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Check for Crawl Errors: Even if there are no errors in Search Console, it’s worth checking the Crawl Stats report to see if there are any patterns or issues that might not be immediately obvious.
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Inspect Your Sitemap: Ensure that your sitemap is correctly formatted and accessible. You can use the robots.txt testing tool to verify that Google can access your sitemap.
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Quality of Content: Sometimes, if Google perceives the content as low quality or not valuable, it may choose not to index it. Consider reviewing your content for quality and relevance.
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Use the URL Inspection Tool: Since you mentioned using the URL inspection tool, ensure that you are checking the correct URLs and that they are indeed included in your sitemap.
If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket with any additional information or specific URLs you would like us to look into, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.
Thank you for your patience, and we’re here to help!
Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
Why Did My Website Disappear From Google Search? » Rank Math
I have tried all of these things already and unfortunately the site has still not been indexed. The website passes live URL testing flawlessly with 0 errors and all enhancements; “URL can be indexed by google”. 0 errors anywhere else. And I have tried everything you just suggested as well. When I inspect the URL google says “URL is not indexed and is unknown to google”. I’d like to send a picture but I can’t for some reason.
Hello,
We’ve checked your robots.txt and sitemap, and they are working fine.
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.
Since your website is already set to index, then it is just a waiting game before Google decides to include the URL in the search results pages. No SEO plugin can force Google to index something they don’t want to.
With that said, we have found that barring any issues like copied/DMCA/low-quality content issues. So, we request you kindly wait for the SERP to include your site on search results pages.
Looking forward to helping you.
Ok so just to be clear, there is no issue with the sitemap even tho google says that there are 0 discovered pages associated with it. And there are 0 issues, and all I can do right now is boost the factors determining indexing speed? Even tho I’ve waited more than 2 weeks already?
Hello,
Yes, you may keep publishing blog post or pages and monitor your Google Search Console for indexing report.
Also, please note that each time Google uses a sitemap to find a URL, the count of the Discovered URLs increases by one. Sitemaps is only one of the few methods Google uses to discover your URLs.
When the count of the Discovered URLs is zero or does not match your actual sitemap in your Google Search Console, it means Google didn’t use the sitemap to find the URLs.
It mostly happens when you have good internal linking or use the Instant Indexing plugin.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/zero-discovered-urls-through-sitemap/
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello. I’ve also recently tried instant indexing API following the rank math guide, and not even that worked. I asked the google community, and I was told I should start promoting my site. Honestly I’ve lost hope that it will even show up. I’d like to ask, is there any way to guarantee it getting indexed?, maybe by buying rankmath pro? Or if I run google ads, will it appear in the index? Please and thank you. And sorry for not responding over the past the few days.
Hello,
Your website’s currently in a coming soon mode.
Setting your site to index in robots meta tags, publishing your content, and building backlinks is enough for your site to show on the search results page.
You may refer to the Ahrefs guide as well to ensure that your site can be indexed:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-index/
Looking forward to helping you.
Ok thank you. But I have 2 questions
1-does paid search promotion guarantee that my website at least appears on search?
2- what exactly are robots meta tags?
Hello,
1. Paid promotions will not help in your site’s appearance on the search results page. You may need your site to be live and publish pages.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/difference-between-paid-search-advertising-organic-optimization-
2. The robots meta tags contain directives for search engines to display/include your pages on the search results page.
If you have already followed the guide we have shared previously, you should notice the index meta tag in your page’s source code
Thank you.
All right. Thank you a lot. If I have any more questions I’ll ask you guys again.
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
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.
