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Aged domain, clean history, 100+RD, good DR in those domains. I don't get why this domain won't get indexed, is it a host problem?
Why my website is unindexed?
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might take time... or it might be a tough niche (which will take time again).
How long have you been having the domain added to GSC for? And is there a site on it already? Because if there's no site I don't think it will index to begin with
How long have you been having the domain added to GSC for? And is there a site on it already? Because if there's no site I don't think it will index to begin with
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It has been about 3 days(?) I think. My other site have already 10 pages of indexed posts within that same time lol..might take time... or it might be a tough niche (which will take time again).
How long have you been having the domain added to GSC for? And is there a site on it already? Because if there's no site I don't think it will index to begin with
Yup restored the pages already
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I think it's too little time. When it comes to expired domains it's recommended to restore them and leave them untouched for 5-6 months, so...
The other site is also expired domain, and also in the same niche, or?
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Indexing actually depends on the quality of the content.
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expired domain different niche
Seoexpertgaurav
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Hmm, could be a mix of things . Sometimes it's not just the host, but the content or even technical SEO. Maybe check if your robots.txt is blocking something or if there's any crawl errors in Search Console? I’d also give it some time—Google’s been slow with indexing lately.
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the niches are different, so I can't figure out what could be wrong.... Had they been the same I would have thought the domain was the problem, but since google treats different niches differently it's hard to pinpoint the culprit.
I would genuinely not stress about it. Just let the domain sit for 6 months after you restore it and keep an eye on the graphs of indexed pages to see if starts moving. If you don't see a few pages getting indexed in a month there's probably something wrong with the domain that we can't figure out (maybe google have even blacklisted it, I've heard they do this nowadays with domains they don't like... and they don't like anyone lol)
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after two months finally start indexing. First time it's taken this long. Which pages would you recommend saving before I nuke the whole site and start fresh with wordpress?might take time... or it might be a tough niche (which will take time again).
How long have you been having the domain added to GSC for? And is there a site on it already? Because if there's no site I don't think it will index to begin with
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what do you mean "nuke the whole site"? (be careful not to nuke the entire internet
)I don't know which pages you should save because I don't know which pages you have.... And save how, by the way? If you're going to "nuke the whole site" (whatever that means) I doubt you can save anything...
If you mean save the content then yeah, you can save that if you want (less time wasted doing research and writing content) but if you're going to publish it on a new domain rewrite it first to make it at least 50% unique...
Also, which pages got indexed?
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Only categories and archive pages are indexed so far including homepage.what do you mean "nuke the whole site"? (be careful not to nuke the entire internet
I don't know which pages you should save because I don't know which pages you have.... And save how, by the way? If you're going to "nuke the whole site" (whatever that means) I doubt you can save anything...
If you mean save the content then yeah, you can save that if you want (less time wasted doing research and writing content) but if you're going to publish it on a new domain rewrite it first to make it at least 50% unique...
Also, which pages got indexed?
Nuking the whole site meaning I'll move fresh to wordpress after getting some of the posts indexed. It's just running on pure HTML atm. I remember reading one of your threads saying you should save posts with the bigger link juice/backlinks only then just start again with wordpress.
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it's good that the homepage is indexed.... the categories being indexed might be good too (depending on whether you want them indexed and / or whether they carry authority and good links)
I can't say anything about archive pages, though as these could be situational. I mean, most of the time you don't care about archive pages, but there are sites that rely heavily on tags for navigation.... or author pages for trust / other reasons, so these pages could be important...
right! I see what you mean...
who knows why I said that... different scenarios might require different approaches, so the comment I was responding to might have needed this solution, I don't remember but if I were you I wouldn't apply what I say, to every case. Sometimes SEO is situational, so you do need different approaches to different scenarios...
Anyway, you can PM the site if you want and I'll have a look at it and hopefully I'll be able to give a more personlized solution to your problem. But please note that I have no access to SEO tools anymore, so you'll probably have to provide some important bits too (screenshots, backlink stats, etc)