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Search Console refusing to index blog posts
Posted by on May 11, 2021 at 4:10 pmHi,
I’m having an issue where search console is just not indexing some of my blog posts. If I look at my sitemap coverage it shows the posts as not indexed. When I inspect the URL it shows that it’s in the sitemap and: “This page is not in the index, but not because of an error. See the details below to learn why it wasn’t indexed.” I’ve requested indexing every week for the last 3 weeks and nothing. It’s not showing and issues and my robots.txt isn’t blocking anything. Any ideas on why this might be happening or how to force a crawl on these urls?
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5 Replies
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The best way is by using URL inspection tool of Google search console. Google will rate your blog according to your updating frequency, number of backlinks, etc. For older blogs, if you are still facing an indexing problem, make sure you do not have internal or external content duplication. And do not rely on sitemaps.
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Maybe try updating the blogs. Do you often change your site URLs? Coz it can happen then.
My blogs were not being indexed but after 2 weeks finally got indexed. All you can do is wait…
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Are your blog posts in a subdomain?
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You need to research how link popularity transfering from upper to lower pages. This is probably your issue.
Essentially, your site is not “worth” as much (it doesn’t have a large enough number of relevant links) , therefore sub pages aren’t worth as much either.
You need link building to increase your site’s worth, that will then trickle down to blog posts.
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So this message in console can be translated to a content quality issue. Review your posts again and make sure you are targeting terms that people are searching for using a keyword tool. Then, ensure that your content is meeting the user need.
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