Finally got my first blog webpage indexed. This was my issue...

Iwearglasses

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Google Console showed crawled but would not index the pages. I thought it had something to do with me building a custom WordPress site. But I could not figure out what was wrong with the custom site. I had an issue for 2 months with no indexing then I finally figured it out.

It was the site map I submitted. The URL has to be exact. I was submitting https://www.example.com/this-is-my-blog but the actually URL was https:/www.example.com/this-is-my-blog/ so when I resubmitted the sitemap with the correct URL Google resolved in 24 hours. So the "/" was my issue.
 
Try to do the same "mystake" for your next links for a short period and than fix them just to see if G will index them better.
 
Ohh that's interesting, when I submit my URL. I always copy the exact link from the search bar.
 
Ohh that's interesting, when I submit my URL. I always copy the exact link from the search bar.
That probably would have been best for me. But I was able to learn something new as well so it worked out. I wish I had a learned it a lot quicker. :)
 
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