James Zhan wrote a blog post recently about how his blog was de-indexed completely by google. He explains what he attempted to fix the issue and concluded it was not his fault. It was Google’s.
I checked and could see his domain indexed on Google and Bing properly. So looks like the issue was resolved eventually. Potentially because he moved his domain’s registrar.
The problem here is how it is nearly impossible for an individual to find out why their domain property is not being indexed by Google.
Google’s search console is very vague about how to resolve whatever issue google is complaining about. “Crawled, currently not indexed” has got to be the worst example here. Why is it not indexed Google? Well, good luck finding out. Google is very unhelpful in explaining that.
I get why. The SEO crowd will easily abuse that in their arms race of an industry. But for an individual, it is total madness.
My blog is suffering from the same thing. I never cared about ranking of my posts. And hell, for a while I wasn’t posting much. But to have my entire blog not exist in Google’s index is total and utter BS.
I have submitted sitemaps, URLs, requested validations, and my lighthouse report is scoring 100 across all the things it tests. I don’t know what else I can do here and I should probably stop caring.
I’ll probably end up obsessing over this soon enough because it truly bothers me. But for now, I shall stop.
On a side node: Bing’s webmaster tools are so much better and gives you clearer hints as to what might be going on. Let’s see if Bing decides to index this domain.