Why is our page will not being found by google?
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Hi,
We have a page that went live nearly 2 months ago. https://www.invoicestudio.com/Secure/InvoiceTemplate
Why does google not notice it. Both site: URL's return nothing.
site:www.invoicestudio.com/Secure/InvoiceTemplate
site:www.invoicestudio.com/Secure
This is an important page for us and do not understand why google doesn't like it.
Hope you can help
Thanks
Andrew
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Thanks well spotted
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Andrew,
I notice that this page is the only page in the footer links that uses the absolute path with https://www..., that has the https:// included in the rel canonical tag, and that doesn't redirect to the http://www. version.
For example, if I am on that invoice template page and I hover over the "How It Works" link in the header, or the "Contact Us" link in the footer, both end up redirecting me to the http://www. version of the page even though the links from the Invoice Template page go to https://www... Both of those pages also have rel canonical tags that use http instead of https, unlike the invoice template page.
If you truly need the page to be https that's one thing, but if not my guess is that updating the footer link (and other links to that page), as well as the rel canonical tag, and adding the redirect like you have on the other pages should result in the page being indexed.
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Hi Andrew,
I saw this particular page being served over SSL. I don't see a reason that this page to be served over HTTPS. If you want Google to crawl and index it, put it outside the secured portion of your website. I have seen this issue many times in the past. It is as simple as this:
"If you want search engines to crawl and index any resource of your website, you better keep it out of the secured portion of it"
Hope this helps my friend.
BTW, Google does not index all of your pages served over SSL and ideally, the HTTPS portion of your website should be blocked from search engines otherwise, the purpose behind it is not served.
In Google search engine, you can check for HTTPS URLs in Google's index as follows:
site:invoicestudio.com inurl:https
Best regards,
Devanur Rafi.
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