Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites

Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by butler14 on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:17AM (#36195766)

Difficult to comment without URLs, there's too many potential causes

Unfortunately "[being] a web designer since 2016" is generally not helpful for SEO

But certainly setting up Google Search Console, submitting a sitemap, and 'fetching' your homepage on day 1 is good practice, especially for a brand new website

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by dskrepps on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:18AM (#36196514)

If you're mass-producing low-quality sites you would do that on day 1 with each of them. So it likely doesn't weigh positively as much as we would hope.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by user_666 on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:07AM (#36197241)

That is my blog post.

I did that with the convention site, yes. It still wasn't getting indexed.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by BryanBigs on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:17PM (#36202942)

Did you build any links to the site? Links=Votes=Trust in Google's eyes....for better or worse. Even a tweet or Pinterest pin?

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by user_666 on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:34PM (#36205067)

yep, all of that!

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by CTmystery on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:41PM (#36204240)

I can also vouch that what the author is saying is true. I've started publishing my notes, and I found that after three weeks none of them were indexed (and yes I submit a sitemap through google webmaster tools). I have since started using the URL inspector tool and adding them one by one. That does work.

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