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Created a new site. Is Google Search Console broken…????
Okay, so I created a new recipe site. Have all the good plugins…Schema Pro…WP Total Cache…etc. Did my due diligence on the domain and validated that no backlinks or prior history showed up in Semrush, etc. Sitemaps are fully enabled and verified to be working. And validated.
Setup Google Search Console and GA4 using Google’s WP SiteKit plugin.
Problem was I didn’t realize that I did not set noindex immediately for 24 hours, and Google crawled the site while noindex was disabled and I was working on it. Normally I set the entire thing to noindex enabled from the start until ready to unleash the entire site. In the past, this was not a problem.
But apparently it is a problem over the past week.
Now, Google doesn’t budge after I have published 67 posts, have done internal linking with Link Whisper, and setup ping. Minimum 2,000 words – 3,000 words per post with all the required headings per search analysis for each keyword.
Human-edited content, but AI generated. Extremely thorough human page optimizations on page.
I went into GSC and validated errors saying I have noindex enabled have been fixed, and doing this fixes nothing. No pages indexed. Just the homepage. Nada. GSC is just freaking slow to admit that I repaired the problem.
I used to be able to index new domains within 24 hours. Now I can barely get it to do anything.
What did I miss?
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Could be it extended the crawl interval time. When were these pages last crawled?
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Mistake #1: Website being publicly accessible while still under construction. You should use a plugin to stop every at the homepage itself using abwebsite under construction plugin.
Once the pages are crawled and onindex detected, Google isn’t returning ant soon. You need to wait a while. It takes up to a week or sometimes longer to validate fixes via Search Console.
If it’s an absolutely new site, why this anxiety? Relax and focus on building your website. Give Google some time to crawl and index your site.
Your AI content will matter only when it’s crawled and not indexed or not ranking.
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So correct me if I’m wrong but I think you can simply delete all the unwanted files from your server database in that case when Google crawls again it’ll easily index all your new files
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Took 2 months for one of my clients…
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So naturally, it must be Googel that’s broken?
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Yeah, indexing isn’t guaranteed anymore.
What added value to the internet do any of these posts bring?
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