Site indexing issue – (HTTPS / www problem?)

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  • Resolved Matt

    2 years, 3 months ago

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    Hi guys,

    I’ve just checked my Bing analytics and have noticed my indexed pages have dropped off from the 18th of December. This is around the same time I had a similar issue on GSC (please see link in the sensitive data field from the previous ticket).

    I’ve also had an issue with stats dropping off in my Ezoic and was told it looks like I started to use the canonical domain in December.

    I’m not sure how this happened, but I must have done something in the Rankmath settings around that time.

    I have since resubmitted my sitemap on Bing. I’ve also resubmitted the post URLs from my spreadsheet but have noticed they are my old URLs without the www, whereas the URLs submitted since the change in December using the Rankmath Instant Indexing have the www added to the URLs.

    I hope that makes sense!

    So, my questions here are, will those URLs get indexed with Bing with the old URL (non-www)?

    I’d also rather go back to how it was before all these changes were mistakenly made in December (so non-www URLs). Is this easily done? Is it worth me doing it? Will it have a detrimental effect on my website?

    I look forward to hearing back from you guys.

    Thanks

    Matt

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  • Jaideep Asrani

    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Since the non-WWW URLs are being redirected to the WWW version, all the non-WWW URLs will be deindexed and the WWW version will get indexed in the SERPs. And it is not recommended to change the version of your site’s URLs as it can affect the ranking of your site since all the URLs need to get indexed again.

    Hope this helps. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need any other assistance.

    Matt

    2 years, 3 months ago

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    Thanks for the reply Jaideep.

    Ok, looks like I’ll have to leave it as www then. Regarding Bing. I’ve submitted the current sitemap. Is that all I need to do to reindex the site? Also, should I remove the old sitemaps on there?

    Cheers

    Jaideep Asrani

    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    Yes, please remove all previously submitted sitemaps and resubmit only your main sitemap(sitemap_index.xml), and wait for Bing to crawl your site again.

    Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to your update.

    Thanks.

    Matt

    2 years, 3 months ago

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    Thanks for that. I’ve removed the old sitemaps and added the new one, so I guess it will take a few days to start moving up again.

    Prabhat

    2 years, 3 months ago

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    Hello,

    Yes, it would take some time for Bing to crawl the website and start indexing the contents again.

    Hope this helps.

    Thank you.

    RankBot

    2 years, 1 month ago

    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.

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