Google deindexing posts across all my sites

[KH1188]

I've started a few niche blogs in the last 3 months. All posts are high quality manually written. All are 1500-4000 words. As far as I can tell they are not over optimized for anything. They are formatted and have pictures etc.

Google had the posts indexed. Some even ranked on page 2-3 without any backlinks. Now they are disappearing or the index. Google is deindexing the posts for no apparent reason. I've never had this happen with sites before.

No idea what is going on here...

This is going on for my sites as well, they have deindexed a large portion of one of our sites, no apparent reason also, possibly a bug..id look into this more on the bug end, like a GSC bug, not its your site bug, I think something is going on, they just don't know it yet..

 

[KH1188]

Yes. I've tried requesting reindexing through the search console. It just comes up with status: excluded.
They acknowledge they pages have been crawled, but are deliberately excluded from the index. I can't figure out the problem.

Request indexing button no longer works..yea the button works but there is nothing behind it

 

[kopoland]

Sounds like my situation. One of my domains is aged with a new site. Where did you get your content from?

New content has been written, each post about 2000-3000 words, i used a tools like semrush or serferseo

 

[popbradley]

This is me as of a month and a half ago. About the time I SHOULD of exited the sandbox my traffic started to rise but my valid/indexed pages have steadily declined. Driving me insane. I’ve tried everything.

 

[KH1188]

This is me as of a month and a half ago. About the time I SHOULD of exited the sandbox my traffic started to rise but my valid/indexed pages have steadily declined. Driving me insane. I’ve tried everything.View attachment 172982

Yea this is happening to a lot of people now..the normal sandbox time is not passing for new sites, sites that should be getting 3-5k hits a month are getting 300-500 hits a month and mostly bots, new sites are continuing to be throttled even with some DR and the excuse, of course, is quality, no matter what, the excuse can always be quality, because that is subjective, and who knows is this quality or is that quality? Dunno,, but ...meanwhile, we are all seeing skeleton pages from authority sites ranking as they please..meanwhile your site pages are taken off to make space for them

 

[KH1188]

Hmmmmm...



Are these aged domains?

It sounds like you're going through the typical Google Algorithrim swing for new websites, no worries.

Ride the storm like a boss.

Taking link velocity into consideration, place some carefully chosen backlinks to your sites.

How long do you think that typically lasts, we are seeing sites past a year still subject to these throttles and traffic filters

 

[popbradley]

Yea this is happening to a lot of people now..the normal sandbox time is not passing for new sites, sites that should be getting 3-5k hits a month are getting 300-500 hits a month and mostly bots, new sites are continuing to be throttled even with some DR and the excuse, of course, is quality, no matter what, the excuse can always be quality, because that is subjective, and who knows is this quality or is that quality? Dunno,, but ...meanwhile, we are all seeing skeleton pages from authority sites ranking as they please..meanwhile your site pages are taken off to make space for them

I’d swear I’d have some kind of penalty if google search console didn’t say my site was fine and that my traffic has increased for one single page. 187 posts and them being deindexed almost daily. My sites currently DA 15 as well. I have some very nice backlinks already and I still can’t even touché some sites that are DA 5 or lower in the top 10 because google refuses to index my posts. My posts are even written by a professional in the field and, in my opinion, provide information most people do not. Keep trying others solutions but nothing has made a dent or made it any better.

 

[popbradley]

How long do you think that typically lasts, we are seeing sites past a year still subject to these throttles and traffic filters

Thats what I see others saying too but I’ve noticed a lot of people will get passed the sandbox effect 3 months to 6 months later. My sites about to be 7 months and I felt like I saw light at the end of the tunnel but with 3 keywords in the top 3 and only 49 in the top 100 out of 187 it gets really discouraging.

 

[KH1188]

It would seem all new sites are being subject to filters and indexing throttles well past a year now, unless they are employing extremely advanced black hat tactics and then they are normally getting blown out of SERPS in 6-8 months, but not after gaining 200,000 keywords..and 100k organic visitors, I would be curious to know any sites that are new under 2-3 years old 1-1.5 years old that are not seeing these issues ... it's too much of a coincidence...we cant all be writing "bad content" or "poor quality" articles that are being deindexed and ignored..or removed..those sites you refer to might have gotten passed it tha 3-6 month hurtle, but when...how many years ago? I highly doubt its recent...last few years

 

[wayne1977]

The same here: Nothing gets indexed.

Website age is 7 months with 149 posts. All of my last posts even after 1 week is not getting indexed. That's about 10 post. And then there are some older ones as well that just not getting indexed. I have tried everything: resubmit, socila signals, backlinks nothing is working.

I have just given up on it and just producing content and hope that it will someday index.

 

[KH1188]

The same here: Nothing gets indexed.

Website age is 7 months with 149 posts. All of my last posts even after 1 week is not getting indexed. That's about 10 post. And then there are some older ones as well that just not getting indexed. I have tried everything: resubmit, socila signals, backlinks nothing is working.

I have just given up on it and just producing content and hope that it will someday index.

What sort of traffic are you pulling in?

 

[wayne1977]

What sort of traffic are you pulling in?

To be honest I never did setup google analytics so I don't really know. But YOAST is showing average 500 visitors a month which is really low for the post count. But then I waiting for the 1 year mark to see what the real visitor count will be.

 

[popbradley]

If you follow people like shaunm, Jon smith, etc they mostly don’t experience this sort of issue. I do know Shaunm did have a site that took a year or so to properly index but the average to see growth is usually 3 to 6 months and that’s for recent sites they created too. I keep thinking maybe my content quality is trash but I use some of the same services Shaunm uses. Natural next assumption is my niche is just super high Competition but I see pages with maybe 100 words of content and DA5 or less ranking page 2 yet I’m nowhere to be found.

I just find it hard to believe google is saying my 2k word article written by a professional in the industry with information none of the articles in the top 10 mention, is worse than the 100 word article on a DA5 to NA site... I just have to believe somethings super wrong with google and it’s just hates my site right now and will hopefully resolve itself.

I mean I have a guy in my niche who has 500 word articles ranking page 1 for some keywords I targeted and his sites only 3 months old. so did he some how completely avoid this sandbox all together? Or are just some sites subjected to this sort of thing happening with no real explanation?

 

[popbradley]

I saved the number of “crawled currently not indexed” posts to see how many were posts and how many more I have that are actual posts and 20 days ago it was 35 were actual posts. Today? 78 lol.

 

[KH1188]

To be honest I never did setup google analytics so I don't really know. But YOAST is showing average 500 visitors a month which is really low for the post count. But then I waiting for the 1 year mark to see what the real visitor count will be.

I think they are giving everyone the same traffic..if your active and if not its less..

 

[KH1188]

If you follow people like shaunm, Jon smith, etc they mostly don’t experience this sort of issue. I do know Shaunm did have a site that took a year or so to properly index but the average to see growth is usually 3 to 6 months and that’s for recent sites they created too. I keep thinking maybe my content quality is trash but I use some of the same services Shaunm uses. Natural next assumption is my niche is just super high Competition but I see pages with maybe 100 words of content and DA5 or less ranking page 2 yet I’m nowhere to be found.

I just find it hard to believe google is saying my 2k word article written by a professional in the industry with information none of the articles in the top 10 mention, is worse than the 100 word article on a DA5 to NA site... I just have to believe somethings super wrong with google and it’s just hates my site right now and will hopefully resolve itself.

I mean I have a guy in my niche who has 500 word articles ranking page 1 for some keywords I targeted and his sites only 3 months old. so did he some how completely avoid this sandbox all together? Or are just some sites subjected to this sort of thing happening with no real explanation?

I think most people are unfairly facing these issues...i dont see anyone in my niche that is new at all its all big players with high DR, I'm sure those sites exist they are also throttled and hidden

 

[clock]

This has happened to me also. The site is 4 years old but for the first 3 years only had 15 pages. In the last year I have taken it up to about 200 pages which were all indexed. All content was hand written by me and unique.

However around 50 pages have dropped into excluded within months of being originally indexed. The site has over 30000 visits a month but these pages haven’t been given a chance. I just thought it was some odd bug.

 

[KH1188]

This has happened to me also. The site is 4 years old but for the first 3 years only had 15 pages. In the last year I have taken it up to about 200 pages which were all indexed. All content was hand written by me and unique.

However around 50 pages have dropped into excluded within months of being originally indexed. The site has over 30000 visits a month but these pages haven’t been given a chance. I just thought it was some odd bug.

30k visitors a month? what is your DR?

 

[clock]

30k visitors a month? what is your DR?

Fluctuates around mid 40s but I have a site in low 50s that only gets about 50 visits a month so don’t rely on those metrics too much.

 

[KH1188]

Fluctuates around mid 40s but I have a site in low 50s that only gets about 50 visits a month so don’t rely on those metrics too much.

Yea I would assume any numbers like that to be in a DR of that range, makes sense, it's weird they limit your indexing at that level of DR perhaps because you didn't post new content for so long when you shock it, it just ignores,