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darinb
(@darinb)
O.K., wait, it’s weirder than that. On site:abiggercamera.com most (but not all) of the pmts are there–the names are just wrong.
For example.
“At Dead Indian Pass” is listed as “A Bigger Camera -”
“Smaller Cameras” is listed as “Uncategorized Archives – A Bigger Camera”
“Crater Lake Blue” is listed as “Darin Boville, Author at A Bigger Camera”
“Review: The Peak Design Travel Tripod, A Fiddly Evolution In Camera Support” is listed as “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera”
Note that two of those–“Dead Indian Pass” and “Review: The Peak Design Travel Tripod” are listed in GSC as NOT being on Google…very odd…
–Darin
Look for my post in the past few days. I had the same issue. Check if you are letting Yoast automatically add SEO title to each post/page?
if so, remove that and manually copy the page title to the SEO title spot. Google will not see your titles.
Thread Starter
darinb
(@darinb)
@sunilmodi, thanks, I’ll try that with one of them and see if it works. But Manually doing each post’s SEO title is a bumper… 🙁
Also, I checked the Google Preview with Yoast for each page and they all display correctly there, just not in Google itself.
–Darin
Yeah, preview works fine for me too. Bigger bummer is my pages was ignored by google for all this time. Now they are finally getting to rank. Google and Bing, both.
Not sure if my issue is isolated to my setup or not, but I read your problem and thought I would chime in, see if that helps you. At least, then we know what the problem is.
Hi @sunilmodi,
Thank you for reaching out about this. We understand that you have issues getting your posts on your new site indexed.
We’ve checked a few things on the 2 blog posts that you linked.
– Both posts do not seem to have a noindex on them. Both posts are included in your post-sitemap.xml.
– Your robots.txt file is the default and OK.
– The Yoast output looks good to us on both posts.
– The Rich Results Testing tool from Google looks good to, see: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?id=SytgJusslX3E3frQ8Gb6iQ.
Having said all of the above, we didn’t see any reason why the posts can’t be indexed. If both posts are new, just as your site is, we would recommend having more patience to let Google regularly check and crawl you site.
One thing you didn’t mention, did you submit your sitemap_index.xml into Google Search Console? If not, we would recommend doing this following the steps found here: https://yoast.com/help/submit-sitemap-search-engines/.
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darinb
(@darinb)
Hey @jeroenrotty
Actually, I’m the OP, not @sunilmodi.
I did submit the sitemap to Google. There was a bug in Yoast where the sitemap.xml was linking back to the main page but per instructions on this forum I redid the permalink and the sitemap.xml performed correctly.
As I mentioned in my second post, despite GSC saying the post is not on Google it *does* appear, but with the wrong title. For example, on the tripod review post you can see it at site:abiggercamera.com under the title “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera” which is the wrong title. Likewise the other posts appear but with the wrong titles.
In addition, the “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera” has the correct subtext for the post but if you click on the link it goes a weird version of the main page, but with that post on top and earlier ones below, but no newer ones.
Something is very weird…
Any idea what the exclamation point in GSC means, next to “Indexing Allowed?.”
I can see that Google may need time to index a page but I don’t understand how GSC says it is not on Google while at the same time the pages DOES appear, but with the wrong name?
–Darin
Thread Starter
darinb
(@darinb)
>>In addition, the “Photo Gear Archives – A Bigger Camera” has the correct subtext for the post but if you click on the link it goes a weird version of the main page, but with that post on top and earlier ones below, but no newer ones.<<
The link is to a category, not a post, in this case. Why are there links to categories?
–Darin
Thread Starter
darinb
(@darinb)
Update:
@sunilmodi mentioned a possible solution–replacing the Yoast automatically generated SEO title text with my own (same words). I had two posts that Google was not indexing so I tried it on one of them last night.
I just checked and GSC is now showing that the post I changed per @sunilmodi instruction is now happily indexed. The post I did not change to my own SEO text is still not indexed (with an exclamation point next to “Indexing Allowed?”).
–Darin
@darinb I am glad you saw the post appear after manually entering the title.
I guess it is now a bug and I am certain these guys will fix it quickly as I am sure many sites are suffering from this.
Thanks
Hi @darinb, Just to recap, you still have a post that isn’t indexed and you haven’t changed the title manually or updated the page. Is that correct?
For this post, please do the following:
1. Use the Request indexing tool in Google Search Console. This encourages Google to crawl and index individual pages. Do any errors or more information appear? Please note that it may take a day or two to see the result.
2. Check the sitemap to make sure that the page appears. The sitemap URL that you submit to Google should be https://www.abiggercamera.com/sitemap_index.xml. If you’ve submitted any other URL like /sitemap.xml, we recommend removing it from the search console.
3. We’re glad to hear that some of your posts now appear as indexed in GSC after you changed the title manually. If there are any other pages, can you update the page without changing any SEO data? Each time you update a page, Yoast SEO updates the sitemap and pings search engines to encourage them to crawl your site. We’d like to test whether changing the title is necessary.
@sunilmodi Putting on my referee hat, it will help to check what’s happening before any changes and rule out any common indexing issues first. This will help us pinpoint the cause of any bug or tell whether this is due to a Google issue.
Right now, we still don’t have enough information to fill out a bug report, but hopefully, we can get closer to a solution. Ok, back to playing…
Good to hear you guys are on it. I would imagine its a simple bug to find out.
By the way, not just google, but bing and yahoo don’t recognize the auto-title posts. That is how we discovered its not a google issue but more local. I guess its read by them and ignored for some reason. I tried manual submissions for 2 months before discovering its not my pages, its something else that’s holding things back.
I hope this gives you enough info to setup a test page and see how google and bing treat it 1: with auto title
2. with a manual title.
have a good weekend.
Hi @sunilmodi,
To be fair to the original poster @darinb, we’d like to give them a chance to respond. Per this forum’s guidelines, we’d prefer to respond about the problem on your site and explain the issues with the test you proposed in your separate topic.
Thread Starter
darinb
(@darinb)
O.K., here’s an update. I left everything alone for a day or so to see where it stabilized at.
1) Good News: All of my posts are on Google and can be found via “site:” search.
2) Good News: Things seemed to improve immediately after I manually entered the SEO title on the oldest problematic post (Tripod Review). I did not manual enter dats on any others.
3) Bad news: However, several tag and category posts are there too, and all of these rank above my article posts in the “site:” search.
4) Bad news: When I search on Google with for that problematic tripod review post using the title of my post, followed by the name of my blog, followed by my own name I’ll get three pages of results–none of them mine. Maybe I’m in the others that Google isn’t showing because it thought them similar to the included ones? (All the other posts show as the top hit when I use the title, blog name, my own name–just that tripod review one is the issue.)
Problem post:https://www.abiggercamera.com/2020/08/22/review-the-peak-design-travel-tripod-a-fiddly-evolution-in-camera-support/
Your thoughts are welcome! 🙂
–Darin
Hi,
You identified several issues. We have responded to them below.
A. Bad news: However, several tag and category posts are there too, and all of these rank above my article posts in the “site:” search.
To clarify, you are trying to rank your article posts in a “site” search? We ask as a “site” search is not a typical search done by searchers. It is somewhat of an advanced search tactic used to see what posts/pages Google has indexed.
B. Bad news: When I search on Google with for that problematic tripod review post using the title of my post, followed by the name of my blog, followed by my own name I’ll get three pages of results–none of them mine.
We are not sure what exact phrase you are searching with OR what the keyword of the post is expected to be optimized for but we searched with: Gear Review: The Peak Design Travel Tripod, A Fiddly Evolution In Camera Support and Google shows the URL here. See image: https://pasteboard.co/JpYEIst.jpg
Thread Starter
darinb
(@darinb)
Hi,
O.k. Well, “B” (above) is new–it wasn’t listing on Google when I wrote the above.
I *think* everything is working correctly now, although I’m not 100% sure what I did to fix things. It all seems to start improving when I manually entered the tripod review SEO title, but who knows.
Thanks to everyone!
–Darin
