9 Best Practices To Fix Google Indexing Issues

It can be due to your website’s overall health, value, age, content type, content quality, etc.

That’s why it’s important to adopt all the best practices to improve overall site health.

Here is how we start to resolve the indexing problems. You can adopt the same to get all your pages indexed by Google.

Prune the dead content and let the fresh shine

This step will improve your website’s overall health and value. Here is how to do it.

1. Remove all the low-quality (unhelpful) content. After the helpful content update, Google slightly penalized sites for having junk on the site.
2. If your site has irrelevant content (i.e., shoe content on a laptop’s site), no matter how valuable that is, remove it.
3. Fix all your page experience issues: core web vitals, mobile usability, and HTTPS.

Once you are done with it, you will realize that your website is more organized and valuable than ever.

This process is pretty similar to pruning. In pruning, you cut and improve your trees to get the best from them. The same you do here to take the best from your website.

Updating articles helps in fast indexing.

Google wants to show high-quality pages in search results. That’s why Google is trying hard to hit spam and low-quality sites.

We saw many updates in hitting spam sites. The primary goal behind these updates is to find high-quality content.

If Google finds someone providing top-notch content, Google prioritizes those sites in indexing and rankings.

The question is, what is high-quality content, and why should you update your articles?

Two things help Google understand if the content is high quality and should be prioritized:

• Up to date: The information on the page is still useful. Thus, updating older pages will help make content relevant and fresh.
• Clarity: If Google can better understand it with its AI system, it should be simple and straightforward.

Here is how Google understands the content to find and provide the best answer to a query.

Google isn’t a human who reads and understands your content; it uses machine learning to understand the content.

For instance, Google relies on the attributes, phrases, and keywords you use in your articles—called LSI keywords.

If web owners are not using attributes or LSI keywords appropriately, Google considers it low-value content. Hence, it may result in de-indexing the article or less prioritization in crawling that site.

So if you want to tell Google that your content should appear on Google search, make it more valuable, helpful, and relevant with outstanding research.

I recently faced an issue on a page about finding developers and programmers. It was crawled but currently not indexed.

After reassessing the page, I realized the content didn’t resonate with the audience; the language and tone weren’t aligned with what potential readers were looking for.

So, I updated it to enhance its clarity and relevance, and it got indexed in just a few minutes.

Add fresh content to get indexed on Google.

Along with updating your previous articles, your top priority should be to add valuable fresh content. Let Google see that you are putting in the effort to research and produce high-quality content.

This will build trust and improve your website’s value.

Here is what you should consider while adding fresh content:

Your top priority should be to create content around your older articles and link them together. Building topic clusters will help establish topical authority. As a result, Google will recognize your website as authoritative and prioritize indexing.

If you do it properly and internally link all the relevant pages, Google will definitely index all your pages.

Social media also helps in indexing.

Once you update and add fresh content, social media can be your best instant indexing tool.

I have noticed that Google indexes some social media platforms more often.

For example, Google constantly crawls Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook business pages, Twitter, and YouTube. If you share your fresh or updated content on social media, Google will most likely crawl it, enhancing your content’s visibility.

As a result, if your site is worth indexing, Google will index your pages more efficiently.

Ping tools also assist in indexing on Google.

Ping tools are designed to let search engines know that you have updated your website. Google has confirmed that ping tools help in crawling and indexing.

Admittedly, it’s not as fast as earlier, but it still works.

Pinging tools are also helpful for indexing your external links (backlinks).

For example, if you go on a forum and post, as you don’t have access to GSC, you will definitely rely on other ways to appear on search engines.

In all such situations, pinging is helpful.

Sometimes link shorteners help to index.

Most of the link shorteners are indexable in Google. That means if you use a link shortener and it’s indexed, not only will it help your page to be indexed, but it will also give you a free backlink.

Use instant indexing API Tool:

If you are looking for fast indexing, Instant Indexing API is the best way to index your site quickly on Google.

The instant indexing API tool is designed for job posting or news sites. Where you add or remove webpages instantly.

If you are kind of a site that publishes a lot of content or makes too many changes in your content, you want Google to index it instantly. Then instant indexing API is the best solution for you.

If you can use RankMath on your WordPress blog, follow these steps to install the plugin and use Google Instant Indexing API.

Link building also boosts indexing.

Building links is another powerful tool to resolve the “crawled – currently not indexed” issue.

Internal linking

If any of your web pages are already ranking on Google’s first page and getting traffic, link your new (but relevant) articles to those pages; Google crawls those pages often.

It will get your page indexed and pass a lot of link juice, so your page will get rankings.

The other reason to improve your internal linking is that it improves the website’s overall infrastructure.

Your internal linking helps users and search engines understand your expertise and builds authority, that’s why Google loves well-organized websites with appropriate internal linking.

External linking

Sometimes, no such authority pages rank for any keywords.

In that case, the best thing is to get valuable external links.

Building links isn’t hard. There are some very easy strategies to build links. My favorite one is using linkable assets to acquire links naturally.

For instance, I recently created two linkable assets on a website, and they started attracting links from the DA 95 website ‘LINE,’ which has over 500 million active users, as well as from Manager, which has a DA of 70.

Getting a link from an authoritative website will tell Google your site is trustworthy and should appear in search results.

Scheduling posts can get your posts indexed faster.

You might not believe that posting your article at a specific time and date will make your indexing even faster than you think.

It doesn’t matter how many articles you post; it can be an article a week or a few posts daily; the number doesn’t matter. But if you fixed it at a specific time and date, it will make your indexing faster.

For example, if you want to make one blog post a week, you can set it as every 7th day, 9 PM, or whatever time you choose.

This method will take a little time to make Google realize you have a fixed schedule. After a month or two, you won’t require to use any other method.

Google Indexing Issues FAQ

What does indexed by Google mean?

Indexed by Google means “GoogleBot” has crawled and analyzed your page, and it may appear for some search terms in Google search.

How do you tell if a page is indexed by Google?

There are two methods to know if Google has indexed the page.

1. Use the URL Inspection tool (available in the left sidebar menu in GSC, put the URL, and hit enter) to see if the page is indexed.
2. Use operator site:example.com/abc to know the indexing status. Where example.com/abc is your URL.