Potential deindexing issue - beware

[Chancer]

If you are losing keywords in your SERPS check that your URLs are still indexed - manually in the search console.



A month ago i noticed a drop in the number of keywords i rank for, i figured it's normal, but this month my number of keywords fell by ~70%...

It turned out a couple of my pages got deindexed. Surprisingly submitting a site map did not fix the issue, instead i had to manually request reindexing of the affected urls.


The worst part is i did not notice any drop in indexed pages on the google's dashboard :ranting_w:
Plus i had to track down the deindexed urls manually.

Looking back this issue coincided with a WP update, so i assume it has something to do with the sitemap plugins.
If anyone knows if there was a known bug please do tell

 

[Marc van Leeuwen]

I don't think it is a bug from WP or something wrong on your site or even you resubmit sitemap will not help.

This affected by Google algorithm updated and changed recent time.

Traffic dropped not only on your site but more other sites.

 

[Chancer]

Actually my traffic increased.
But still the problem is some of my pages are not getting crawled.

 

[Marc van Leeuwen]

Marc van Leeuwen

As I knew then it was an error from the system of Google and they fixed that recently.

 

[Chancer]

I think i found why my pages got deindexed, seems there truly was a bug: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/4110321?hl=en

The timeframe sort of fits.

(My second google glitch post today :icon_eek:... i thought google is infallible...)

 

[willsonrobin]

I also noticed the Google indexing issue for my projects and when I searched for the solution on the Interent, I got a very latest Blog for this concern - check here

 

[MarkMiller]

Possibly some kind of glitch by Google, Google can do mistakes!

 

[odysseus]

You would think these huge companies should have no bugs, but you would be surprised