Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your site not being indexed by Google. It can indeed be confusing when things don’t go as expected. Here are some additional tips that might help you resolve the indexing issue:
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Check for Content Duplication: Ensure that there are no duplicate pages on your site. If you find any, consider adding a canonical URL pointing to the original content you want indexed.
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Review Your Robots.txt File: Make sure that your robots.txt file is not blocking Google from crawling your site. You can use the robots.txt testing tool to check this.
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Manual Indexing Request: If your website is still not indexed after checking the above, you might want to submit a manual indexing request to Google. However, keep in mind that relying on manual submissions can indicate that improvements are needed on your site.
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Use Rank Math’s Instant Indexing: If you are a Rank Math PRO user, you can utilize our Instant Indexing feature to submit your URLs directly to search engines, which can help speed up the indexing process.
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Be Patient: If your website is new, it may take some time for Google to index all pages. Sometimes it can take weeks for new sites to be fully indexed.
If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern!
Hello,
Thank you for getting in touch and I am extremely sorry about the trouble this might have caused.
There are a few things you must check for in order to see why the posts aren’t getting indexed.
1. Make sure the post is not selected as ‘noindex’ in WP > Posts > Your Post > Advanced Tab in Rank Math.
Screenshot for reference:
2. Ensure that the noindex is not selected for Global or Posts meta:
3. Check the sitemap settings and check if the posts are setup to be included in the sitemaps:
Please note that it is completely upto Google if they want to index or not index your website. 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 and thank you for your Answer. I cant find the Point 3.) „Include in Sitemap“. The other Settings are the Same.
Hello,
We’ve checked your sitemap and robots.txt, but they seem to be working fine.
Please note that 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. 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.
If Google still doesn’t decide to index those pages even after crawling your site again, then there is nothing you can do other than wait.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/definitive-list-reasons-google-isnt-indexing-site/118245/
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. You may check this section in your GSC for that:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175?hl=en
If there are no manual actions imposed on your site, we request you kindly wait for the SERP to include your site on search results pages.
Looking forward to helping you.
I understand that and thank you for your help! Im waiting and maybe no it will be working. 🙏👍🏻👍🏻
Hello,
We are glad we could address your concern.
Please feel free to create a new forum topic if you do have another question in the future.
It will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
