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Site not being indexed by Google

Jonathan Hatton

Hello,

Having an issue with my site not being indexed by Google.

This is my site: https://www.this-camera.com

I know that Brizy only uses the www version of the site so the root domain is forwarded to the www.  I have the correct A record and CNAME settings configured on my DNS (I've triple-checked them).

I've submitted the sitemap at www.this-camera.com/sitemap.xml and it was accepted - it contains 20 pages / URLs

But only 10 pages are being indexed when I check it on site:www.this-camera.com

Google Search console states that only 2 of the pages are indexed and it tells me I have various errors:

10 pages with a re-direct error

7 pages with re-direct

9 pages discovered - currently not indexed

7 pages crawled - currently not indexed

Please advise hot ti fix.  Seems to be a re-direct issue within Brizy.

I can provide screenshots of any of these issues as required

 

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  • KC George

    Hello Jonathan,

    Out of 20 pages, 9 are discovered but are not currently indexed. 7 pages are crawled but currently not indexed. "Crawled - currently not indexed" in Google Search Console means Googlebot visited your pages but decided not to index them, often due to low-quality/thin content. A minimum of 300 words is often recommended to avoid being classified as "thin content". It is good to aim for 500–750 words at a minimum for pages to ensure enough context for search engines.

    Let's look at the total number of words in some of the pages that are not indexed   

    1. https://www.this-camera.com/contact-us  - 153
    2. https://www.this-camera.com/events - 139
    3. https://www.this-camera.com/ancillaries - 132
    4. https://www.this-camera.com/blog - 95

    The above pages have less than 300 words. Word count for these pages where calculated using https://www.seoreviewtools.com/bulk-web-page-word-count-checker/
    This could be one reason why some of your pages are not indexed. Other possible reasons

    • Crawl Budget Issues: Googlebot is overwhelmed or limited. 
    • Technical Delays: Sometimes, it just takes time to index a page. 
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  • Jonathan Hatton

    Thanks for the reply KC

    BUT I understand I need to add more content, but there are still 17 re-direct errors which are being caused by the Brizy platform not handling the re-directs correctly from the bare domain to the www.

    Please advise what is the issue here - this seems to be an issue wth Brizy re-directs.

    See attachments from Search console.

    Thanks for your attention

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  • KC George

    Hello Jonathan,

    Brizy Cloud publishes websites on the www subdomain and not on the root domain. Visitors to the root domain are redirected to the www version.   

    When "Page A" redirects to "Page B", Google will index only "Page B" (and will not index "Page A"). This is a normal indexing behavior of Google and it is not an error. Let's look at why the first 4 redirects in your screenshot happen. 

    1. http://this-camera.com/ redirects to https://this-camera.com/. Hence the first URL will not be indexed
    2. https://this-camera.com/ redirects to https://www.this-camera.com/. Hence the first URL will not be indexed
    3. https://www.this-camera.com/home redirects to https://www.this-camera.com/. Hence the first URL will not be indexed.
    4. http://www.this-camera.com/ redirects to https://www.this-camera.com/. Hence the first URL will not be indexed.     
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