Why Isn't My Ghost Website Indexing on Google or Has It Stopped Being Indexed?

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Hi everyone,

I’m running a website using Ghost CMS, and I’ve noticed that my site hasn’t been indexed at all or may have stopped being indexed.

Here are some details about my setup:

  1. My website is live and accessible at mediuminside.com
  2. I’ve verified my site in Google Search Console.
  3. I checked the robots.txt file, and it seems fine (no disallow for search engines).
  4. My posts have proper metadata, titles, and descriptions.
  5. Sitemap is generated and submitted to Search Console.
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://mediuminside.com/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /ghost/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /members/api/comments/counts/
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /webmentions/receive/

Despite this, Google still doesn’t seem to pick up my website. Am I missing something? Could there be issues specific to Ghost CMS that are preventing indexing?

I’d appreciate any advice or troubleshooting steps to resolve this issue.

Thanks!

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You should look at what Google search console actually displays. It’ll tell you for each page in your sitemap what its status is.

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Vous avez demandé à Google de valider votre correction des problèmes Indexation des pages sur le site mediuminside.com. La correction concernait le problème suivant : 'Explorée, actuellement non indexée'.

Cependant, nous avons constaté que certaines pages sont encore concernées par ce problème.

Afin de passer en revue tous les détails sur la progression de la validation et savoir comment corriger les pages restantes, veuillez cliquer sur ce lien.
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please, Any idea How to fix the issue related to the website stop the process of indexing my website

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Add to search console, thats the point, then you add the sitemap, then you can see. Google also doesn’t rank everything anymore by a long shot sites who used to get a million visits are at thousands, you may never rank and focusing on Google alone is now a purely dangerous approach.

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So… did you click the link? What did it say?

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Screenshots of French are hard to work with. My French is poor, and I don’t have a tool that’ll translate an image into another language. I /think/ the middle one is saying that Google chose a different canonical url. That can happen if you have the same content in two places, but also if you have an inbound link with a query string, causing Google to think the two links are different.

If you actually have the same content in two places, that’s something to fix. Both pages should report the same canonical url. Google may still choose another one. It can be like that.

The first one is a missing page. You’ll need to figure out what page Google is expecting that is missing. Could be you deleted it or renamed it. Or that you have a typo in a link.

In any case, the screenshots show only the top of each problem. Scrolling down should show specific urls. You can look at each one and figure out if there’s an actual problem (broken link somewhere, etc), or whether what Google is doing is fine.

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Besides Google Search Console, you can learn what they have indexed by searching Google for “site:mediuminside.com.” When I searched “site:mediuminside.com Student Identity Development Exam” I discovered that Google had indexed that page. So it is no longer affected by ‘Explorée, actuellement non indexée’. Which keyword searches should lead visitors to that page or to your website?