This can happen periodically with all indexing services, if they buy up expired domains for indexing and some domains suddenly have still high ranking, then they drag canonical to themselves. But Google has only had this option in place for a couple months, they haven't done this before, and they are aware of the problem and are addressing it now.Steptoe, thanks for a good study.
Have you been checking the referrer / canonical data in GSC? I noticed that some of the indexing services drag Googlebot quite quickly but after that you can encounter backlinks to your website from irrelevant pages without content or even worse - Google decides that the referring page was canonical and doesn't index yours.
This can happen periodically with all indexing services, if they buy up expired domains for indexing and some domains suddenly have still high ranking, then they drag canonical to themselves. But Google has only had this option in place for a couple months, they haven't done this before, and they are aware of the problem and are addressing it now.
But the services, of course, still better on their indexing domains to use together with 301 and header: X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow
To avoid this bug from Google.
P.S>
By the way, we recently conducted a test so Google bug when it says in the console that the wrong canonical page is selected and points to another site completely, not yours. We managed to determine in the test what exactly affects its choice.
You mean from the domains that some services use for their 301 redirects? I haven't been tracking them per se (though I have a nice list of domains that they used collated, for me to spy on later) but it's something I could think of tracking in the next iteration of the study.Steptoe, thanks for a good study.
Have you been checking the referrer / canonical data in GSC? I noticed that some of the indexing services drag Googlebot quite quickly but after that you can encounter backlinks to your website from irrelevant pages without content or even worse - Google decides that the referring page was canonical and doesn't index yours.
There are at least a couple of services that need to follow your advice regarding that http header!This can happen periodically with all indexing services, if they buy up expired domains for indexing and some domains suddenly have still high ranking, then they drag canonical to themselves. But Google has only had this option in place for a couple months, they haven't done this before, and they are aware of the problem and are addressing it now.
But the services, of course, still better on their indexing domains to use together with 301 and header: X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow
To avoid this bug from Google.
P.S>
By the way, we recently conducted a test so Google bug when it says in the console that the wrong canonical page is selected and points to another site completely, not yours. We managed to determine in the test what exactly affects its choice.
You mean from the domains that some services use for their 301 redirects? I haven't been tracking them per se (though I have a nice list of domains that they used collated, for me to spy on later) but it's something I could think of tracking in the next iteration of the study.
In very large quantities, you will not have time to feel the problems from indexing services, the anti-dorway algorithm will punish you sooner.Thanks, now it's quite clear.
It would be very interesting to know your test results if possible. I am thinking to use indexing services on a large scale but I am very concerned about how it might affect SEO rankings.
In very large quantities, you will not have time to feel the problems from indexing services, the anti-dorway algorithm will punish you sooner.
And in normal quantities there are no problems in using indexing services.
Of all the indexers I tried so far, this one worked just fine. Give it a try. The only issue is about Telegram. But they have an API where you can do everything programmatically even generate invoices. I never tested their API though, just used Telegram.I'm going to contact SpeedyIndex to ask for a miracle, but my expectations are low.
A visit from googlebot does not always mean that the page will be indexed and sometimes the quality of the donor(googlebot source from service) affects this.Hi @Steptoe,
Sorry i'm still new in seo so i dont really understand how to read the report. Report for Indexing Expert domain #3 1st googlebot visit is 9 hours, 19 minutes but in the column 1d to 14d all is x. my question is :
1. 1st googlebot visit is the first time google index the page, isnt it?
2. if the answer for point 1 is yes, then what is the check mark in column means?