Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question on why one might see a sudden spike in indexed URLs by Google Search. The short answer is that there can be a ton of reasons, so it is hard to answer the question without the specific domain. But Gary did say these three reasons why Google might increase […]
Google’s John Mueller said that pinging Google that your sitemap file has been updated can help Google index your new content quickly. He said it is simply Google practice to ping Google with when your sitemap file is updated. Of course, this does not guarantee indexing. Google still does not index everything, so just because […]
A lot of SEOs focus on the pages Google has indexed versus the pages Google has not indexed on your website. So if there is a larger percentage of not indexed pages, they get concerned. Should they be concerned? Well, like anything in SEO, it depends. John Mueller of Google was kind of asked about […]
Last week, Google rolled out a new Search Console report for HTTPS, and with that came a lot of confusion around a specific error. The error was “HTTPS is invalid and might prevent it from being indexed.” This shows in the URL inspection tool, which was part of this upgrade. John Mueller from Google did […]
Google just announced that it fixed a bug with Google Search Console that labeled pages as being indexed when they were not indexed. Google said this bug “affected many properties”. Google wrote on Twitter “Today we fixed a Search Console issue that affected many properties: we were reporting pages that are not indexed as being […]
Lily Ray published on Twitter that many SEOs notice this and post about it on Twitter with “many examples of URLs in the GSC report” Crawled, Not Indexed “(with the current crawl data) that are actually indexed URLs”. There are many and many of me on this topic and it seems that Google is investigating […]