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What else should I do to get indexed by Google?
Hey! I just deployed my web application (Nuxt) and improved all the SEO related factors (i.e., sitemap, robot.txt, titles, keywords, canonical url, etc.), however I cant see my website when I do a google search or eve "site:mywebsite.com". I have submitted my sitemap to GSC and the status is success and my Lighthouse score is 100.
I have two URLs, one with www. and the other without. The main is the one with www. and the other one redirects to the main one with 308 (permanent redirect) code. When I do "Test Live URL" on GSC, it says both URLs can be indexed but for some reason none of them are actually indexed, plus I got "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" on the one with www.
If you want to dive deeper, I'm more than happy to share my URL. Thank you!
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The site: operator doesn’t always show everything, don’t rely on it for indexing.
GSC is your font of truth. Check your indexing report in GSC and see what’s popping up.
If it’s crawled – not indexed, and has been for a few days, you have a quality issue.
If it’s discovered – not crawled, manually request indexing and wait a couple days.
If you’ve got a loop on your www and non-www pages, fix it, you want 301 redirects as well not 308.
If you’re getting Google chose different canonical to user, try to update canonicals and urls to be consistent, you may have http/https, www or non-www or trailing/non-trailing slash inconsistencies which are confusing Google.
After those, check a page render in GSC, if it’s mangled or blank because you’re super heavy on JS then you should look to SSR key pages and the homepage. -
Nuxt… are you doing Client Side Rendering? With no URL to go on, I’d say check your page source code (right click in the browser) and see if you can “find” the strings “<a” or “<h1” in the code from that right click. If not, neither can Google (without them using the headless browser crawl).
Aim to build static pages in your build process if they don;t change often, or do SSR if they change data more often than when you publish and build the project again.
Just a guess based on the problem you mention and the use of Nuxt, without looking at any of your actual setup. I hope it helps.
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If it’s not being indexed and everything seems okay, check url length. If the url is too long it can lead to it not being indexed.
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Add to Bing Webmaster
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