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Not ranked in Google, but ranked in Bing, Yahoo
Hello community
We’re struggling with the ranking in Google. We’ve relaunched a website in November 22. Since then we can see, that Google has indexed the page. Still, we’re not visible (not low, just NOT visible) in the results. We’re constantly working in optimizing page speed and the indexing as well Content and Backlinking. We’re indexed with more than 400 pages according to Google. SEMrush Sitehealth is 74, page speed on google is 36 on mobile. Not the best speed, but based on experience, it’s strange that we’re not visible at all. We asked also SEO experts to analyse the website and we’re constantly following the recommendation (including Google Business Account and all other things which are related). Basically it’s possible that we’re not ranked best – but not ranked at all sounds very, very strange to us. Even by making a search based on the brand-name we’re not getting any results.
We made a mistake in the beginning, that our domain for the development environment was indexed by mistake. We then asked Google to transfer the domain to the official URL. This is still pending since January 23, and we don’t know when it will be transferred.
Having a look at Bing and Yahoo and trying there to search for our brand-name we always land on the first page and first position.
We assume, that we have a basic and fundamental problem that we’re not considering/seeing at the moment.
Any inputs in this regards?
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Can you elaborate on “We’ve asked Google to transfer the domain to the official URL”?
My general recommendation would be to set up a 410 (this tells Google that access to the target resource is no longer available at the origin server and this is a permanent state). Think of the 410 as the permanent equivalent of the 404 error message you see when a site is unavailable.
You’ll likely have to update some code in the htaccess file to tell the user agent, if it’s the Googlebot crawler, that a 410 is in place.
Basically, I think the reason the SEOs are telling you everything is fine is because your site’s content and performance IS good from an SEO standpoint. But all of that makes no difference because Google doesn’t see you and isn’t crawling your site.
Reach out any time via PM with the specifics and any errors you’re getting and I can try to help untangle things a bit.
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