Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your website not being discovered by Google. It can be frustrating when your sitemap is submitted successfully but still shows no discovered links.
Here are a few things you can check to troubleshoot this issue:
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Ensure Your Sitemap is Correct: Make sure that your sitemap is correctly formatted and includes all the necessary URLs. You can validate your sitemap using various online tools to ensure there are no errors.
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Check Robots.txt: Ensure that your robots.txt file is not blocking Google from crawling your site. You can check this by visiting `https://rankmath.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/canonical-url.jpg and ensuring there are no disallow rules that would prevent crawling.
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Internal Linking: Ensure that there are internal links pointing to the pages you want indexed. A poor internal link structure can affect how Google discovers your pages.
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Content Quality: Make sure that the content on your pages is valuable and not duplicated elsewhere on your site. Duplicate content can lead to indexing issues.
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Website Age: If your website is new, it may take some time for Google to discover and index your pages. Patience is key in this case.
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Crawl Budget Issues: If your site has a lot of pages, Google may not crawl all of them immediately due to crawl budget limitations.
For more detailed guidance on fixing indexing issues, you can refer to our article on how to fix indexing issues in Google Search Console.
If these suggestions do not resolve the issue, 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!
Sources:
How to Fix Indexing Issues in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Discovered – Currently Not Indexed in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Please note that the Discovered URLs 0 that you see in Google Search Console just means that the URLs in the sitemap were already found by Googlebot by other means, instead of via the sitemap. For example, Googlebot may have found the URLs from internal links or possibly from links on another site. It mostly happens when you have good internal linking or use the Instant Indexing plugin.
Here’s a link you can check for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/zero-discovered-urls-through-sitemap/
However, if your pages are not getting indexed, please share the affected URL with us so that we can check them further for you.
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
The issue is not with the sitemap as the sitemap is loading just fine and validated as you can see from the screenshots below:
The issue here is that your hosting provider is currently blocking Googlebot entirely. Here’s the screenshot if we load the page with Googlebot as the user-agent:
In this case, you’ll have to contact your hosting provider and ask them to whitelist Googlebot and other Search Engine bots to ensure your website content is discoverable by them.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
I got the website whitelisted , can u able to verify the situaion is resolved and working now , Please verify thanks and message me when ready thanks
Hello,
It seems like the website is now accessible to Googlebot so it should be able to be crawled consistently. Please allow some time for the situation to stabilize and for Google to see that the website can be crawled again.
Thank you.
I have an issue with my images not showing in the google images in search and also bookmarked images not coming in the front home page of my website. Please let me know thanks
Hello,
Assuming you have already optimized your images by following this guidelines, be aware that even if you meet all the requirements, Google may still choose to exclude some images from search results. With that being said, please provide the direct URL to the affected post/image so that we can further investigate the issue.
Hello,
The images on your site are working fine and are also included in the sitemap. However, it is completely up to Google if they want to index the images. They only index the images they think will improve the quality of the SERPs. You should work on the image SEO of your site and wait for Google to index the images. https://rankmath.com/blog/image-seo/
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
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.
