Google Keeps Deindexing or Burying Your Site

“My Website Is Not Appearing in ChatGPT Search Results — How Can I Improve Its Visibility?”

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“yeah thats exactly what it is, just backlinks all the way down [re: SaaS directories are a slopfest, grifty and useless]”

“The performance page (/docs/guides/performance resources/, generated by scripts/docs.ts and scripts/full engine docs.ts ) reads as raw evidence, not a designed page. Sections show provenance rows, a paragraph and a full data table, and the headline result is hidden in the table. Observed (0.5.0 page) Core write path: The scale is a run on bridgeRows=1,000,000, bridgeInsertRows=10,000, … sentence. Scenario IDs wrap mid identifier ( command state select:with / command state handler ). Times wrap b”

“Hey r/SEO , My site — a multilingual Baltic ferry comparison site I’ve been building solo since December 2025 — just had a brutal overnight crash in GSC impressions and I can’t figure out the cause. The numbers: Oct 10: 1,377 impressions Oct 11: 747 (−46%) Oct 12: 36 (−97% from baseline) Oct 13–14: ~100/day (partial recovery, no changes made) What I’ve already ruled out: No Google Core Update on Oct 11 (checked Search Status Dashboard) robots.txt is clean No noindex added sitewide No manual acti”

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“Distribution first now that people are actually searching. One new page is fine if a real search with no result pointed to it, otherwise let usage decide. [re: My local directory finally has users. Now I’m trying not to ruin it by building too much.]”

“I’d focus on distribution now and only write pages that answer searches you’re already seeing in the logs. [re: My local directory finally has users. Now I’m trying not to ruin it by building too much.]”

“You can keep adding content SEO wise, but it gets to the point where it’s not about the content you post, it’s about whether Google trusts that content. So, instead of adding more and more content that doesn’t rank/index/pull in traffic instead look at how you can prove to Google that your traffic is worth ranking at number one for commercial terms. Do this and you’ll pull in converting traffic. You do this by acquiring links. Links on sites that in turn, Google trust. You can assess if Google t”

“Last week Search Console showed me 3 impressions. The content was fine, but brand new domain with DR was 17 and nobody linking to it. The options were: Fiverr ($650 for "200 directory submissions" that don't look like a link farm) or do it myself. So I ran a local agent (Qwen3.8-27B Uncensored, Q4_K_M GGUF, on my M5 Pro, no GPU server). First pass: it scraped ~40 "best AI directories" listicles, deduped down to 130 URLs, checked which ones had a working public submit form”

I launched a curated font library website a few days ago, but Google hasn't indexed most of my pages. Does this process take time or is there another reason it's not happening?…

“I feel like I’m going a bit crazy. The same behaviour happens here on meta as well as my forum: We have AI embeddings and semantic search enabled. Search for something using AI mode “where are the financial statements?…”

“So in the starting We got very good traction we created lot of content but after a while I am seeing that for one keyword we are getting impressions on 5 6 pages and one page is getting impression for different type of keywords also maybe I feel like that my keyword analysis was not good actually we just identified common or topics on which we should write content and we start it writing them but now I feel like the content is jumbled up every blog is getting impressions for multiple keyword. I”

“search console first is the right call. learned this the slow way, my site was putting out 2 posts a week through theo and traffic barely moved for months. when i finally looked, the service pages had impressions sitting on page 2 and nobody had touched them. rewrote 3 of those with real prices and photos of our jobs and that did more than 30 posts. the posts arent useless but now i spend my time on the pages that already get impressions [re: More content isn't always the answer to getting more”

“The page is 2+ months old. Already have over 600 followers. Content is posted everyday. Linked from the company website. Still nothing seems to help with getting this page indexed. What could I be missing? submitted by /u/SpicySummerChild [link] [comments]”

“Hi everyone! I'm running a Google Search campaign where approximately 90% of impressions, clicks, and ad spend are attributed to "Other search terms" in the Search Terms Report. Some context: Campaign type: Standard Search, Manual CPC. Keyword match types: Exact and Phrase (no Broad) Search Partners: Disabled Reporting period: Last 30 days Around 90% of search term data is hidden This means I can only see the actual search queries responsible for roughly 10% of my advertising spend”

“Hello everyone! I have a Google Search Problem and I wanna get some advice and the post is related to my sitemap.xml file couldn't be fetched by GSC. After the site submition google won't fetch my sitemap. I have a new domain registered last week. Google tells me "Coudn't fetch" and when I click on it for details it tells me the single thing "Sitemap could not be read". NOTHING MORE, I checked the xml and is aright and the single thing in my robots.txt is a line o”

“Skincare ingredient site. We grew from 1.5K to 3.3K static pages in 10 weeks; about half were pairwise “X vs Y / can you mix X and Y” pages that mostly never earned an impression. On Sept 16 impressions went from ~1,400/day to 18 overnight. No manual action, pages still indexed, nothing shipped that day. Since then we noindexed the pairwise pages that never earned an impression (3,300 → 493 indexable), merged 149 twins with 301s, fixed a lying sitemap lastmod and a double canonical, cut LCP 4.3”

“I’ve been working on SEO for the past four months, fixing technical issues, and my latest crawl resulted in a score of 96. Despite this, the number of indexed pages on my site continues to decline. If anyone here knows what the problem might be or how to go about diagnosing it I would appreciate some professional guidance. submitted by /u/Federal_Fill8634 [link] [comments]”

“I’ve been working on SEO for the past four months, fixing technical issues, and my latest crawl resulted in a score of 96. Despite this, the number of indexed pages on my site continues to decline. If anyone here knows what the problem might be or how to go about diagnosing it I would appreciate some professional guidance. submitted by /u/Federal_Fill8634 [link] [comments]”

“Interested to know how people are handling keywords nowadays. I still see websites where the same keyword is repeated constantly in titles, headings, product descriptions and blog content. My understanding is that actively hurts rankings and Google mostly ignores the over-optimisation? For those doing SEO regularly, are you still deliberately targeting a main keyword and variations, or just writing naturally around the topic and letting Google work it out? I understand ai is being utilised immen”

“I get being tired of promotional posts. This came from an actual client issue: we’re trying to recover access to their existing Google Analytics account because the dev that launched their website never bothered to check it and there’s now a gap in tracking. It got me thinking about the handoff details that are easy to miss. I could have made the post more specific to that situation. [re: Are you using a spreadsheet as your launch checklist?]”

“I have tried to rank for a certain keyword for 12 months now on my website. I see new websites ranking for it even on the second page within 2 or 3 months. I have built quality topical authority around it, included alt texts on pictures, some URL slugs include the keyword, H1, H2 & H3 titles have the keyword, I have backlinks with anchor texts mentioning the keyword, internal linking, my website speed is A. What am I doing wrong? What major thing am I not doing? submitted by /u/M”

“I'm struggling with the major search engines nowadays because they fail to display the actual pages I want to see and instead lead me to aggregate sites. I used to be able to search my youtube channel name and I would find these random russian websites that archived my comments. Now I search and I just get "No results found". Even when I know that exact search should yield an answer. Most google search results after the first page are just unrelated content. Where it isn't even”

“I have a history site called myth and memory. It has been about 10 months since I started posting and the site is about history and mythology. What I noticed is that the traffic I get from bing is almost the same as the traffic I get from Google. Recently I am getting between 20-50 visits from Google per day and the same is for Bing. Considering the huge difference in user count between the two it seems very strange to me. In Google most of my visits are also from images. submitted by &#32”

“My colleague thought Collection page and URL can get better rank than "Page" page and URL as she found other brands do this and got rank. I don't believe so. I think content is the core point. I would like to hear your opinions of it. Thank you! submitted by /u/Mysterious_Emu_7372 [link] [comments]”

Hi guys, I made a website for tools, such as generators/word counters/calculators and converters. All pages are indexed on search console, but I was wondering how I can start getting some traffic.…

“What are some ways you think that engineers work on infra to keep a topic or "bad PR' harder to search? submitted by /u/asubad4you [link] [comments]”

“Honestly, yeah i'd agree link rot is a real problem, and I don't think simply collecting links solves it. It's something I want to tackle in the upcoming versions of curio via notifications and by taking inspiration from apps like duolingo , etc. And yeah, shareability is a big part of the vision. The idea is that someone should be able to open a collection and immediately understand what it's about and start exploring the resources without jumping through hoops. A curated learni”

“We’re working on a website redesign right now, and I’ve been looking into the SEO issues that tend to show up after launch. Obviously, redirects and broken links are the first things everyone mentions. But I’m wondering about the less obvious stuff that gets missed even when a team thinks they’ve covered everything. What’s something you’ve seen go wrong more than once? submitted by /u/aem_by_devhandler [link] [comments]”

“Fair pain point, and the hero snippet explains it fast. The first thing anyone who cares about backlinks will ask is whether crawlers can see the badges. A lot of them don’t run JavaScript. If the FAQ answers that, I’d move it up to the “how it works” section. Two other questions: what does it do to layout shift and load time, and do ad blockers hide it? And $10/month is a lot for something I set up once and touch every few weeks. A one-time or cheaper yearly plan would be an easier yes. [re: I”

“I have a site for file format converters and data visualization, cleaning etc tools. When I inspect urls and request indexing these got indexed within seconds. but google is not sending any of impressions on it (I am talking about impressions not position). I am not mentioning site url here because it is my first post and I am sure it is allowed here on first post or not, but if some one can help and want to see the site you can check datafrog with the dot tools extention Thanks, submitted”

“Hi everyone. I’m new to SEO and could use some advice. The site I manage averaged around 25k impressions for a good year and a half. After Google’s August spam update, it dropped to around 2,5k on average, and now it dropped to around 500 on average and it hasn’t recovered. There’s no manual action in GSC, but the drop lines up with the end of the update. We think it was caused because of thin scaled content abuse, plus keyword stuffing. We read the Google SEO tips and Google Spam Policies and d”

“Today I checked the last 28D data on GSC and saw that my website is ranking for 218 long-tail queries. How do I know that they're AI queries - These queries are quite elaborative - "how many emails can i send per day in gmail without being spam" The mentioned URL in GSC data - we are not even in the top 50 for that query All of those long-tail queries have ZERO clicks Now, my dilemma - I checked all 218 queries using DataforSEO to check which queries we are showing on AI Overviews,”

“Yep same experience here. I went through the usual route of writing blogs and other things hoping to rank for SEO, but that barely resulted in any traffic. Then one day I got one user from nigeria and I was super happy. Then I got about a dozen in a week and it began growing week after week, but my google search console showed barely any traction. I checked my datamogger dashboard and saw a bunch of traffic was from ai answers in chatgpt and other ai apps. The training section showed a whole bun”

“Yeah, that part sucks a lot. But isn't page loading speed also depending on the content of your page? What does your Notion looks like in general? [re: Do people still use Notion to study?]”

Hi everyone, I made a website. Tried to do SEO as good as possible, but somehow Google doesn't want to index it. I get the " Crawled - currently not indexed "…

“Ever since the recent Google spam update, DataForSEO has been returning completely distorted rank tracking data for my projects. Some sites are showing drops of 50+ positions across core keywords, but actual organic traffic and GSC impressions haven't budged at all. When checking manual incognito SERPs from the exact same target locations, the positions don't match what the API reports either. I contacted DataForSEO support, but they just brushed it off as "high SERP volatility caus”

“So I have a website that was doing very well, especially on Google. At the start of 2026, I changed the name and domain so that one additional topic could be covered. Did all the redirects, Change of Address, and internal name changes right away so traffic recovered quickly around the start of April. Everything was indexed on the new site and the new domain was getting around 5,000 impressions per day. Four months later, Google suddenly reverted everything back to the old domain. More than 5,000”

“June 2026 Google spam update google penalized my website vidhyagen. com. In website, it was my fault. Because i write mostly content by ai. I rewrite new content but nothing happen. I try to link building but no one give backlink to my wesbite. Now i rewrite some pages. I have been doing this for the last month. But nothing happen. Sometime i thought can i leave this domain? Please give me advice. submitted by /u/Nice-Equivalent-5047 [link] [comments]”

“This exactly what I need to do. I have been dealing with marketing like side task while it has been always the main one. So, Between SEO & GEO, which one moved the needle first ? [re: Nobody tells you how quiet it gets after launch.]”

that 50% drop is the real clue. deleting and reuploading a product gives it a brand new url, so anywhere the old link lived, google, pinterest pins, old posts, now sends people…

“Hi everyone, I'm helping manage a small professional portfolio website for a child actor and model based in Istanbul, Türkiye. We've been working on technical SEO, but Google Search Console still shows very limited organic visibility. Our recent 28-day GSC snapshot: Impressions: 62 Clicks: 3 CTR: 4.8% Average position: 14.2 The website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and maintained through GitHub. We've already worked on canonical URLs, redirects, XML sitemaps, structured data, interna”

Maybe limit automatic link fixes to replacement URLs the owner has already approved. A link to the wrong product could be harder to spot than a 404. [re: What should a self-healing…

“The noindex page with a clean link is a good catch, and you're right that it's invisible to anything that only reads rel. Two more that fail the same silent way, from reviewing launch submissions by hand. A canonical tag on the listing that points somewhere else (often the category page), which tells Google to keep a different URL. And a listing that is indexable but only reachable from deep in a "newest" feed, with no category or tag page linking to it, so a crawler rarely get”

“At Search Central Live in Barcelona (Oct 2), Gary Illyes showed Google's internal numbers for how long Search processes take. John Campbell from ROAST posted the full table. The highlights: - Discovering a new URL: ~20 hours (slowest: weeks to never) - Indexing, end to end: ~1.5 hours (slowest: months or never, quality) - Site move: 1-3 months (slowest: 6 months to 1 year+) - Core update recovery: 3-6 months (slowest: 6 months to 1 year, next core update) The word "never" shows up”

“All SEO sorted? Titles, descriptions, meta, alt text, etc If nailed you’ll be amazed how quickly you’ll rank organically [re: Got my Shopify store set up but now I have no idea how anyone is supposed to find it]”

“I have updated a few articles for my org and was wondering if there is any way to get Google to recrawl them as fast as possible sorry if this is a stupid question submitted by /u/zebdebleblol [link] [comments]”

Daily feels right for SEO since Google is slow to react anyway, but it's a good question for the security version of the same idea. A robots.txt mistake costs you traffic over…

“this speaks to me, agencies are drowning in data from their crawlers but a simple "hey something broke" heads-up is way more useful the noindex after a redesign one is so common it's almost a rite of passage, happened to a friend's site and they didn't catch it for 3 weeks until a client noticed the traffic drop link would be cool, always curious to see how people are handling the monitoring side [re: What I learned building a micro SaaS for agencies in 2 weeks: they dont w”

I kept seeing the same post in SEO and agency subs. A site loses its traffic, and the cause turns out to be something silly, like a noindex left on after a…

“I work at an agency, and we’ve seen a HUGE increase in toxic backlinks being picked up by SEMRush starting on September 29th-ish and getting REALLY bad the last couple of days These are clearly spammy AI generated sites coming from the same source, and while I don’t think they’ll have an SEO impact, the sheer number is kind of baffling. I had one client get 3.8K toxic backlinks on their scan today, and their disavow file was updated less than two months ago. Is anyone else seeing this and is the”

“​Hey everyone, ​My site took a major hit following a Google Core Update (lost a massive chunk of organic traffic and rankings across key pages), and I’m looking for advice or a proven framework on how to properly audit and recover. ​For those who have successfully recovered or stabilized a site after a core update hit, what was your exact action plan? submitted by /u/OttawaWork [link] [comments]”

“Probably content and SEO. Early on, it's easy to take shortcuts because you just need to get campaigns and pages live. The problem starts when those shortcuts become the system and every new campaign needs more manual fixing or rework [re: At what point does “move fast” start becoming expensive? - I will not promote]”

“It can't be just me.. the 24 hours tab is now showing 29 hours since last update... submitted by /u/MobAppMan [link] [comments]”

“Client moved locations during August/ September Google update happened in September Something hit the domain with 100+ spam backlinks, also end of August to early September. Something marked the PageSpeedInsights down to 38 from 72 There is no cliff in the timeline where keywords dropped on 1 specific day but over a multitude of days. This tells us all 4 are the culprit. Less likely the spam links in our experience but the original backlink profile was only at 400 and so 100 spam could have dilu”

“I’ve been wondering how big this gap is for other people. Ahrefs shows around 300 referring domains for my site, but Google Search Console shows just 23. Only three of the domains in GSC also appear in Ahrefs, so it’s not just a difference in totals. The lists barely overlap. This also makes me wonder how much weight to put on competitors’ backlink counts when deciding whether a keyword is realistically winnable. If the tools give such different pictures for my own site, it’s hard to kn”

“We have e-commerce client on which organic revenue is dropping since 2 days. Also I am experience indexing issue in google search console. Is there anyone in this same situation? submitted by /u/Oceansaga_1 [link] [comments]”

“Before Submitting [x] I searched open and closed issues and discussions for an existing report. [x] I reproduced this bug on the latest release AND on the current dev branch, right before submitting this report. I did not just check an old version or rely on a check from days ago. [x] I understand that maintainers want a well written issue before any code pull request. [x] This is not a security vulnerability. Installation Method Git Clone Open WebUI Version dev at 0ecf244e1, also v0.11.4 Operat”