Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your pages not indexing in Google Search Console. If Google is showing either “noindex tag detected” or “crawled but not indexed” for your pages that were previously indexed, there could be a few reasons for this.
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Noindex Tag Detected: If Google is detecting a “noindex” tag on your pages, it instructs search engines not to index those pages. You should check your website’s source code to ensure that the “noindex” tag is not present. If it is, you need to remove it to allow Google to index your pages.
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Crawled But Not Indexed: This status means that Google has crawled your pages but decided not to index them. It could be due to various reasons such as quality issues or indexing delays.
To address this issue, you can follow these steps:
- Check for any recent changes on your website that might have affected indexing.
- Verify that there are no technical issues preventing indexing.
- Ensure that your pages meet Google’s quality guidelines.
If you have already followed the steps from Rank Math articles and are still facing issues, we recommend reaching out to our support team directly by clicking here. Our team will assist you further in resolving this indexing issue.
Thank you for raising this concern, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Best regards,
Rank Math Support Team
Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
How to Fix “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Discovered – Currently Not Indexed in Google Search Console » Rank Math
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The Excluded by noindex Tag status means that Google has found a noindex tag on your page. This could be due to a number of reasons:
- You might have accidentally added a
noindex tag to your page.
- You might have accidentally checked the discourage search engine option in WordPress settings.
- A site plugin or script might add a
noindex tag to your pages.
- Your site might have been hacked, and a hacker might have added a
noindex tag to your pages.
If you want people to be able to find this page, youâll need to remove the noindex tag. Weâll show you how to do that in the next section.
Here is a link for more information and how to fix the issue: https://rankmath.com/kb/excluded-by-noindex-tag/
Can you please share some examples of the pages that you have set to index but are still flagged by Google as âExcluded by ânoindexâ tagâ? We would love to help investigate the pages for you.
âCrawled â currently not indexedâ means Google has crawled your page but has not indexed it yet. Finding a certain number of URLs including image URLs with this status is entirely normal because Google does not index all the URLs we submit. This isnât an error but there are some reasons for excluding the pages from its index.
Please note that there are various factors that Google considers while indexing. Your frequency of posting and your siteâs domain authority are just two of the many factors Google considers when indexing web pages.
Google assigns a crawl budget to your website depending on these factors (especially these two), and that has a direct effect on how soon (i.e. how efficiently) your content can be indexed.
Hereâs a link for more information and how to fix it: https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you.
