Pointed out that Google's automatic index is not working



Google's search engine automatically discovers and scans new websites and pages using 'crawlers' that follow links between websites. Thanks to this, when you create a new website or write a new article on your blog, even if you don't bother to notify it, it will be caught in Google's search results as time passes. It has been pointed out that the function that automatically creates an index may not work.

Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites - WTF? - Nate Hoffelder

https://natehoffelder.com/blog/google-no-longer-automatically-indexes-websites-wtf/



A few months ago, Nate Hoffelder, who has been running websites for over 10 years and is also a web designer, asked a client, ``Why is a website that has been opened for four months not indexed by Google?'' I received a question. The site shows up in search results on Bing and DuckDuck Go, but not on Google. At this time, one of the responses was successful and it came to be displayed, but the cause was unknown.

And the other day, I found someone on Reddit who had the same problem of not appearing in Google's search results after two months of opening a website. And finally, Mr. Hoffelder himself realized that the website that he volunteered and was in charge of was not indexed by Google. The site is over a year old and submitted a sitemap through

Google Search Console . The site map shows 9 pages, and I was able to check the entire site with DuckDuck Go, but when I searched on Google, it seems that only the top page was indexed.

Mr. Hoffelder, who was a blogger before becoming a designer and has studied Google's SEO in detail, said that even if Google does not index if the site owner sets 'noindex', basically Google I understood that indexed the site regardless of the user's wishes.

For this reason, he expresses that he did not check whether the website was properly caught in Google search unless requested, ``It is like not bothering to check whether there is gravity.''

According to Mr. Hoffelder, this problem cannot be solved by sending a sitemap from Google Search Console, and although it will take time and effort for the time being, there is no choice but to force indexing using the URL inspection tool .

In addition, social news site Hacker News reports that multiple problems other than 'not indexed' have not been resolved.

Google no longer automatically indexes websites? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195600



Mr. userbinator points out

that when searching within the site using the operator 'site:', it may not be possible to search normally .

Burnte points out that if you put quotes around the search phrase or put a '-' at the beginning of the search phrase to exclude it from the search results, it may not be searched correctly.

In the past, Google has had problems with some pages not appearing in search results due to indexing errors. I'm not sure if it's the same kind of problem you're having this time.

A bug occurs that prevents some pages from being displayed in Google search results - GIGAZINE



in Web Service, Posted by logc_nt