Pages Not Getting Indexed
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Hey there
I have a website with pretty much 3-4 pages.
All of them had a canonical pointing to one page and the same content ( which happened by mistake )
I removed the canonical URL and added one pointing to its page. Also, I added the original content that was supposed to be there to begin with.
It's been weeks but those pages are not getting indexed on the SERPS while the one that they use to point with the canonical does.
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I have tried all these of-course before hand. Still nothing.
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Hi,
The first place I would look to investigate this is at the Crawl Error Report in Google Search Console (if you haven't already). Here are some things I would also check:
- Does your site have a XML sitemap? If no, I would add it to your site (could help Google indexing the pages faster)
- Do you have a lot of redirects? This could cause problems.
- You could try Urivalet to check if the server header of your pages are okay.
- Obvious one: are you sure that you don’t have a NOINDEX in your meta tags?
- Check your robots.txt to see if those pages aren't disallowed.
- If your site uses Appache, maybe your .htaccess file is causing issues?
- Do you experience any problems with hosting/DNS or really slow loading times?
I don’t know what you already tried and the specifics, so it is a bit harder to troubleshoot
Hopefully you will find a solution soon.
Mark
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Hey there Mark and thank you for your answer.
I have already fetched as Google numerous times. It doesn't seem to make the pages get indexed.
I have done the same thing a thousand times to a thousand different websites. This is the first time this has ever happened to me.
I believe this has something to do with the fact that those pages had a canonical url pointing the homepage. Even though I have removed the canonical url google still doesn't crawl the pages.
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Hi,
It can take a while before Google indexes your pages.
You can check if they are indexed by using the following in Google Search: site:yourwebsite.com
This will show all the indexed pages of your website.
Another option is to manually upload the url’s to Google here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
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