Things that Prevents Your Blog From Indexing - How to Fix

If you have registered your blog with Google search console, Then you can be able to check if your blog posts were indexed or not through the gsc tool, by just navigating to the inspection menu, and type the link then hit enter to see if your blog posts are indexed or not.

If the URL has been indexed there will be a statement "URL is on Google" while if it isn't you will get the notification this way "URL is not on Google".

Take a good care when checking the URL links on the Google search console website, because blogger is only configuring sites in "www" when you add a custom domain to it unless you are using the free .blogspot.com subdomain they provided, you must type the actual link don't exclude "www" when checking the posting links, Doing this will hide your blog link from showing "URL is on Google", Because your blog is originally using the "www" format in the posts URLs.

What Could Cause Your Blog Not Indexed?

Below are some strong reasons why your blog aren't Indexed on the search engines or taking too long, well after learning how to check if your blog is indexed or not now let's proceed further to know the reasons why this process is not working fast on our blogs.

1. Blog/Domain Is Still New

New blog takes time to indexed than an old blog and why?, Because when a blog is new that means it's 1 or 2 months old, compared to an old blog that took almost 1 year and above the indexing process must not be thesame, And these is the key reason behind long time taken before a new blog indexed, its either the search engine doesn't normally understand your blog what is all about because it is new or because your blog is in lower status compared to the older blogs on the search engine.

2. Blog Indexing Prevented by MetaTag

Sometimes it is an errors that happens when setting our blogger blogs which prevent our blog from indexing especially when doing the Meta Tag setup.

As a blog or website owner, you can tell search engine bots not to index the blog post or a specific category , the way to do this is by using the Noindex Meta Tag code.

I'm sure no any blogger would wants his blog not to be indexed on Google, and knowingly install the Noindex Meta Tag code.

The most likely thing that happens is because the Meta Tag settings are wrongly implemented so that the Google search engine cannot index the blog.

On Blogger, Meta Tag settings can be accessed in the Settings menu > Crawler and indexing > Enable the custom robot header tags.

When enabling this settings you have to be careful so that you didn't set it wrong.

I will advice you to just disable the meta tag settings. Unless you really understand how to use it.

3. Blocked by Robot.txt

Apart from telling search engine bots not to index your blog, You can also tell search engine bots not to crawl your blog or a certain pages on our blog, Using the robots.txt file.

Meta Tag and robots.txt codes have different effect on indexing a blog/site.

If the Meta Tag codes tells search engine bots whether your blog can be indexed or not, Then robots.txt tells search engine bots whether your blog can be crawled or not.

Meta Tags = Indexing

robots.txt = Crawl

When search engine bots are blocked using the robots.txt file, your blog can still appear in search results.

However, if you set the robots.txt file incorrectly, the indexing process will take longer, or will not indexed at all.

On Blogger, the robots.txt file settings can be accessed in the Settings menu > Crawler and indexing > Custom Robots.txt.

To avoid error while trying to implement the custom robot.txt, I recommend you to disable this feature in the first place.

4. The domain has been banned by Google

Very unlikely to happen, but it could happen, The reason a domain is banned could be because the domain was previously used on spam or malware websites.

Normally, there is no way for you to know whether the domain you are using is banned or not.

But you can use the Wayback Machine tool to view the history of a blog/site domain.

If the domain has previously been used by a suspicious website, then there is a possibility that the domain has already been banned by Google.

Tips for getting your blog indexed quickly

Below are some tips that your blog or posts can be quickly indexed in the Google search engine.

1. Register and Submit Sitemap in Google Search Console

The first tip is to make sure your blog has been registered with Google Search Console and has also submitted a sitemap file.

By registering and submitting a sitemap to Google Search Console, Doing this will quickly help to indexed your blog.

2. Regularly and Consistently Update Content

Google robot crawls blogs varies from one blog to another.

The most influential thing is the popularity of the blog being crawled. If the blog is very popular, the blog can be crawled by Google robots several times per minutes, or even per seconds.

That's the reason why new blogs take so long to index.

You have to be more regular and consistent in updating the content on your blog so that it gains popularity more quickly, Lots of backlinks, lots of shares, etc.

3. Request Indexing Every Time You Create a New Post

Blog posts are quickly indexed without having to wait for your blog to become popular, You can force the Google robot to crawl and index your blog. This can be done via the Google Search Console.

Go to Google Search Console, click the URL Inspection menu, enter the URL you want to index, then click " REQUEST INDEXING "

Usually in this way the blog post will be indexed in less than 24 hours.

So as long as your blog is still new and not very popular, make it a habit to make indexing requests via Google Search Console.

4. Build a Good Internal Linking

Internal linking is an on-page SEO technique that has been proven for a long time. Besides being able to help increase rankings, internal linking also helps with search engine robot crawling.

Internal linking in terms of crawling has the same function as the sitemap that we submit to Google Search Console, Making it easier for search engine robots to find pages/posts on your blog.

By the way, what is an internal linking?

Internal linking is a link from one page/post to another page/post on your own blog.

For example, if you create a new post, in that post you will have to provide a link that leads to another, older post.

Widgets such as popular posts, related posts, or recent posts that display a list of posts also include internal linking.

But many people think that internal linking in posts is much more effective than widgets.

5. Be patient and enjoy the process

After following all tips above, then you just need to be patient and enjoy the process. That's all, hope this article is helpful and worth to share with other people to benefit.

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