Hello,
Please could you tell me what I am doing wrong? I can’t get Google to ‘read’ my updated website. A very old version is still being shown on the search page.
I’ve attached screen grabs of the reports I got from Google Console. I hope you can help,
Thanks, D
Hi Erwin,
Thanks for your reply.
I successfully submitted my new sitemap with the correct .xml on the 9th and then saw my homepage/index had been crawled on 10th. I made the assumption that, that meant the whole site had been read? I’m a bit ignorant about all this, does each page from the updated sitemap get crawled at different times?
Thanks, Debbie
Hi @Pipspaws,
Unless you state otherwise in sitemap, Google will index your pages at its leisure. In my years in this business, I’ve yet to discover any logic in the way it goes about this 
I’d give it another two weeks or so. If you don’t see progress by then, chime back in. Submitting a new sitemap and requesting an index run manually usually does the trick.
Cheers,
Erwin
Hi,
I’ve checked back today and one of the main pages has failed to be indexed. I have attached screen grabs as I haven’t a clue what I’ve done wrong. Please could some one point me in the right direction…? Thanks, D
Hi @Pipspaws,
This error pops up if Google determines that the pages of your site are too much alike. It’s a measure to thwart websites that deliberately try to get themselves ranked higher by repeating content and referring to themselves.
To fix this, you will need to set metatags that clearly describe what the content on that pagei s about, so that Google “sees” the difference more easily.
You can do this by hand, by following the how-to pages that Google links to on the error explanation, or you can get a product that does this for you.
SEO Helper by Weaver’s Space (about $50) is such a product.
Cheers,
Erwin
