Not indexing new pages

Extrim25 · Jul 25, 2022

For a long time (about 2 years) I have not made any changes to my site. All old versions of pages are in the google index. Two weeks ago I added new articles and made adjustments to the old ones. I also added in disavow old links that had a high toxicity rating. Judging by the logs, the Google robot visits the site, but usually looks at one page of the sitemap (sitemap_index that Yoast generated), sometimes looking at additional pages like page_sitemap. But it does not visit new articles. I tried adding two links through the GSC a week ago, but also no success. Is it still worth waiting or should I use an indexing service? Maybe the site has lost its Crawl Budget?

tazarbm · Jul 25, 2022

maybe not the answer you expected to hear but I would ditch Yoast for TSF (The SEO Framework). I simply don't trust Yoast anymore after they've been bought by EIG (an umbrella company that has screwed me over few times over the years), so I don't exclude the possibility of Yoast being the problem.

If you do wish to keep using Yoast though, and Yoast is not the culprit then probably that google are not impressed with your site's content / structure / whatever, in which case you will have a hard time indexing that content, with or without indexing services. Just out of curiosity, can you check after how long the previous content had been indexed after it's been published? Because if it took google 1 month (just an example) to index the previous content it might have flagged your site as a "thing content" type of site and these sites don't index fast usually (one of my thin content sites took 3+ months to start indexing).

If you start publishing content more frequently it's possible that the indexing speed will increase, too, but I don't know for sure so don't quote me on this one. I would still ditch Yoast, though

Extrim25 · Jul 25, 2022

tazarbm said:
maybe not the answer you expected to hear but I would ditch Yoast for TSF (The SEO Framework). I simply don't trust Yoast anymore after they've been bought by EIG (an umbrella company that has screwed me over few times over the years), so I don't exclude the possibility of Yoast being the problem.

If you do wish to keep using Yoast though, and Yoast is not the culprit then probably that google are not impressed with your site's content / structure / whatever, in which case you will have a hard time indexing that content, with or without indexing services. Just out of curiosity, can you check after how long the previous content had been indexed after it's been published? Because if it took google 1 month (just an example) to index the previous content it might have flagged your site as a "thing content" type of site and these sites don't index fast usually (one of my thin content sites took 3+ months to start indexing).

If you start publishing content more frequently it's possible that the indexing speed will increase, too, but I don't know for sure so don't quote me on this one. I would still ditch Yoast, though

Thanks, I'll look at the old logs later, but it took about 3-4 weeks in my memory. What would you recommend instead of Yoast?

tazarbm · Jul 25, 2022

Extrim25 said:
Thanks, I'll look at the old logs later, but it took about 3-4 weeks in my memory. What would you recommend instead of Yoast?

I just told you: TSF

Or you can use RankMath if TSF is too basic for you, although you don't seem to have a big site so TSF should meet all of your SEO needs....

If 3-4 weeks then that's probably what it will take for those 2 posts to get indexed... unless you start publishing content regularly to give google reasons to crawl your site more

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