Can't get Google to index our site although all seems very good
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Hi there,
I am having issues getting our new site, https://vintners.co indexed by Google although it seems all technical and content requirements are well in place for it. In the past, I had way poorer websites running with very bad setups and performance indexed faster.
What's concerning me, among others, is that the crawler of Google comes from time to time when looking on Google Search Console but does not seem to make progress or to even follow any link and the evolution does not seem to do what google says in GSC help. For instance, our sitemap.xml was submitted, for a few days, it seemed like it had an impact as many pages were then visible in the coverage report, showing them as "detected but not yet indexed" and now, they disappeared from the coverage report, it's like if it was not detected any more.
Anybody has any advice to speed up or accelerate the indexing of a new website like ours? It's been launched since now almost two months and I was expected, at least on some core keywords, to quickly get indexed.
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I would try to get some more external links and also add more internal linking. This website has many outbound links in your posts but almost no internal links, and that is something I would change. I would also noindex thin content pages, such as some not necessary category pages. It is advisable to have your web content translated by agencies that offer professional Language translation services in Singapore such as Lingua Technologies International.
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Hello,I just saw this thread of comments. for Google to carry out a good indexing of the pages, you have to have time, but more importantly, make those pages are of quality, from the content, to the keywords or structure. It is advisable to have your web content translated by agencies that offer professional Language translation services in Singapore such as Lingua Technologies International.
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Hello,I just saw this thread of comments. for Google to carry out a good indexing of the pages, you have to have time, but more importantly, make those pages are of quality, from the content, to the keywords or structure.
In some cases when translating a page Google is able to detect a low quality translation or one done by automatic translators, so it may not index that page properly. It is advisable to have your web content translated by agencies that offer professional website translation services such as Blarlo. -
@pau4ner Thanks, very helpful and somehow comforting. For the FR translations, indeed we are doing them "a posteriori". As we have a canonical, I was thinking that it could not hurt, even if of course it is better once everything has been translated.
For the category pages that you suggest to noindex, are you thinking of pages like https://vintners.co/regions/france-greater-than-loire-greater-than-anjou which are probably good as internal links but are just content listing?
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I have the same problem, I created a gross net salary calculator for Germany. I proactively reply on Quora, Facebook groups, and Reddit to questions with links to my site. But still, my site is not indexed. Also when I check the speed score for my site I get only a score of 30 for mobile. How much does this influence the indexing speed?
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Hi, nowadays new sites can take longer to get indexed by Google. Your site is indexed, although not all pages.
I also see that you have submitted two sitemaps. It is not really necessary in that case. Having a quick look at other technical issues everything seems fine to me.
I would try to get some more external links and also add more internal linking. This website has many outbound links in your posts but almost no internal links, and that is something I would change. I would also noindex thin content pages, such as some not necessary category pages.
I assume content is 100% original and ahreflang is implemented amongst your language variations. I have noticed however that in the french version you still keep your titles and blog posts in English. They are canonical to your English original content, but I'd probably had them translated and add and hreflang instead.
Apart from that, getting more links to your website and reducing the internal link/outbound link ratio should work —I've had some recent cases that this helped, although it took 4-5 months to solve the indexing issues. -
@tom-capper Thanks for the reply. The concern is indeed that only a few pages have been indexed (ranking will be a concern later), and that although the sitemap has been discovered by Google, and Google Search Console said the engine has discovered all the pages, it seems like they are not being indexed.
I'm surprised as I had websites in the same domain, with very few external links too, that got indexed way faster!
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The site appears to be indexed, but maybe not all pages.
Is your concern that the other pages are not being indexed, or that the pages that are already indexed are not ranking for any keywords?
I suspect in either case it doesn't help that this site has almost no external links (DA 1) - with this level of obscurity, Google will not prioritise crawling resources.
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