Website deindexing

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  • Resolved Harrison Aniebiet
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    My website content is constantly getting deindexed from search engine.

    I’m not sure why this happened but I did two major changes few days ago before I noticed this problem.

    The two changes I did are:

    1. I upgraded from free rank math to premium. But after installing the premium version of rank math I realized the free version was already too good for me, so I uninstalled it in about 24hours later

    2. After uninstalling premium rank math, I changed my international targeting in search console from unlisted to United state.

    These were the two major changes I did.

    24hours after these two major changes were made, I noticed that:

    1. Site map discovered url suddenly showed zero

    2. My content started getting deindexed from SERP. My mobile friendly pages started reducing and currently it has reduced to 1. My FAQs rich snippet data started reducing too and currently it’s zero.

    I don’t understand why these is happening.

    But if I submit the child version of my sitemap it will show all the post and pages successfully but the primary site map is showing zero.

    Also, the majority of my content has been deindexed from search engine. Only about 7 post in left in SERP and the deindexing continues every day.

    Note:

    1. I’ve tested my sitemap it all seem to be working fine, I’m not sure why this suddenly happen in GSC

    2. My content are original and quality

    3. I haven’t engaged in any link building

    4. There’s no warning or manual action warning from google search console

    5. My site speed is almost 100% and responsive too.

    I’ve checked everything I could, I’m not sure why this problem is happening.

    Please any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Changing Rank Math plans shouldn’t cause deindexing from Google SERP. Please follow the steps below to address the possible issue with your sitemap:

    1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    3. After doing so, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and resubmit only the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml).

    Also, please head over to Google Search Console and look for any coverage issue so we can further determine what’s causing Google to not index some of your website’s pages/posts.

    Looking forward to helping you on this one.

    My sitemap shows successfully submitted but discovered URL is zero.

    Here’s what I noticed:

    I submit a sub-sitemap, it works fine.
    But if I submit the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml) it shows zero discovered URLs.
    Here are the few solutions I’ve tried so far:

    I checked my robots.txt and it seems to be working fine
    I excluded rank math files from my wp rocket cache plugin
    I have flushed the sitemap cache by following a video solution I saw in the rank math forum https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
    I have removed all the rank math sitemaps from the search console and only submitted the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml)

    Yet, this problem persists.

    I’ve waited for a long time now, it’s over a week now and this still shows zero.

    Hello,

    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.

    Crawling and indexing of the website depends on the authority and crawl budget of the website.

    It is completely up to Google if they want to index or not index your website. So, if you haven’t willingly or accidentally made your post noindex and Google still isn’t indexing your post – it means that either Google doesn’t want to index or hasn’t crawled your post yet because it hasn’t allocated that much crawl budget to your website.

    As for the errors in your GSC coverage, please expand each error type so the affected URL will reveal. Share the affected URL here for each error so we can further check it from our end.

    Looking forward to hearing back from 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.

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