Why my website homepage only indexing

did you try searching site:yoursite.com? You could try doing more internal linking if it still won't show up, or just generate a sitemap and submit on google search console.
 
Make sure you interlink your inner pages with the indexed homepage.
 
Does anyone know why?
few things I can think of...

- too little content
- your content is not qualitative enough, or it's duplicate / similar to the content of other sites ranking in top 10, so google has no use of it
- your site is not mobile friendly (I've heard that non-mobile friendly websites don't get indexed anymore, not sure if it's true but if it is, it's a big deal)
- your content pages might be tagged with "noindex" tag either by one of your plugins, or by the htaccess / robots.txt files
- you've not submitted your sitemap to GSC and - while this is not mandatory for a site to be successful - it can still help (especially newbies) to find their way around SEO by following google's tips

Last but not least, it's also possible that not even your homepage is indexed but you can see it because you're logged into your google account (gmail, Youtube, etc) and google shows you what you want to see, or what you own. This has happened a lot of times for me in the past, so to check whether or not any of your pages are really indexed your best bet is to (preferably log out of your google account first and then...) copy-paste each URL, manually, into google between quotes (the quotes are important, so don't skip this) and hit "enter"

If you do this and you can't even see the homepage indexed anymore it's clear as day that google hasn't indexed any page from your website for whichever reason (fresh new site and google have not had time / possibility to discover it yet, your domain might be penalized / blacklisted / flagged by google in some way and now google refuses to index it, your pages could be blocked from being indexed by some of your plugins - usually the SEO plugins do this, etc)

It's hard to say the exact reasons without knowing your site and doing multiple checks, but it's probably one of these...

My recommendation is to create a sitemap and submit it to GSC and give it some time (up to 7 days, but you can check multiple times per day if you want, sometimes it's a matter of hours anyway) for google to discover all of your content via the sitemap and index all / some of it if they find it useful.

Even if you don't get indexed, when you submit the sitemap to GSC google will usually tell you why it can't index the pages, so it's worth submitting the sitemap.

As a last resort (and since you only have a handful of pages), you can use the "request indexing" feature inside of your GSC, for each URL separately. Again, if the content is good and the pages are not blocked by "noindex" tags one way or another, requesting indexation manually should work...

If it still doesn't work even after manually requesting it... well, I don't know in this case, but it's probably either bad content (usually 100%, unedited AI content tends to not get indexed), or your site is not mobile friendly like I said, and this can actually impact indexation, or - worst case scenario - you've bought a bad expired domain that you thought was good because you didn't know how to check it for red flags, and now you suffer the consequences...
 
I started to learn SEO and build a Wordpress website with few blog post. My website is 2 weeks old and when I search on Google I can see only my home page is indexed. Other pages are not indexed.
Does anyone know why?
Submit your website to GSC, ensure your on-page is right.

Create foundational links in the form of social media, forum, profile links.
Your posts would eventually start getting indexed. Though 2 weeks is not a very long time. Keep working on your website.
 
First create categories with description at the top (easy to do with block themes) , then write articles every day, link each article from the single post back to the category + link back to the home page, voila! You are building internal backlinks who will make ranking your categories too (multiple serp listings).
And check if your seo plugin and the sitemap works, when not then google stop indexing.


Happy Weekend
 
Make sure your sitemap is valid
Use the URL inspect tool for each page
 
you've been penalized by Google, or you're in the google Sandbox. Also, try the URL submission tool on Google Search Console
 
I started to learn SEO and build a Wordpress website with few blog post. My website is 2 weeks old and when I search on Google I can see only my home page is indexed. Other pages are not indexed.
Does anyone know why?
Just make a site-map and submit it on GSC.
 
I started to learn SEO and build a Wordpress website with few blog post. My website is 2 weeks old and when I search on Google I can see only my home page is indexed. Other pages are not indexed.
Does anyone know why?
1. You can generate a sitemap using plugins like Yoast SEO or Rank Math, and then submit it through Google Search Console.
2. Check your robots.txt file to ensure that it’s not blocking Googlebot from crawling your blog posts. You can find this file in the root directory of your website (e.g., yourdomain.com/robots.txt).
 
I started to learn SEO and build a Wordpress website with few blog post. My website is 2 weeks old and when I search on Google I can see only my home page is indexed. Other pages are not indexed.
Does anyone know why?
it’s normal for a new website to take some time to get fully indexed. Google often indexes the homepage first. To speed things up, I’d submit a sitemap to Google Search Console, ensure internal linking is strong, and avoid any crawl-blocking issues. Also did integrated an robots.txt file?
 
If you want to index tour other webpage then use search console, and give sitemap of your website . Or you can send request particular page for indexing.
 
You can check the reason of deindex in Google search console. First find out the reason then fix it. I hope you other pages be indexed .
 
There are high possibilities, if there is no internal links linked from your homepage or other indexed pages hence google might not discover them. Make sure you have created the sitemap and submit the same to Google Search Console (GSC)
 
Here's a quick workflow you can use:
  1. Google site:yoursite.com to check which pages are indexed
  2. Check if you block indexing (e.g. noindex tag)
  3. Check if the content is "good enough" (e.g. not very thin)
  4. Submit your URLs to Google Search Console
Btw. in the Search Console you can also check the crawler stats under "Settings".
 
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