I notice that on google hardly any of the content on my website is indexed. I have looked at the sitemap that RW generates and it only has about 7 pages but there is ton’t of content on my site.
http://www.seacrusader.co.uk/sitemap.xml
I am wondering if there is anything i can do to get more content indexed?
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Hi @Paul_Reading,
If you click on the grey box that says “620” you’ll see why Google hasn’t indexed those pages. This is always the starting point.
It’s usually that the page in some way doesn’t meet Google’s expectations or something called a canonical error. Post back here with the reasons that Google gives you and we’ll see if we can help you with that.
Cheers,
Erwin
I am really sorry I had completely forgotten that I had identified this problem before. Essentially both Rapid Weaver and Google will not index my blog pages. I am using RW8, Foundry, Stacks and “Poster” stack from instacks software. Both system see my blog as a single page. RW have indexed just 11 pages on my site and so has Google according to the Google console.
It is reporting that 434 pages are affected by this issue. is there anything that can be done or is the software just rubbish? If so it is really sad as I have been blogging for 7 years and notbing is index in Google and so I get no traffic.
Hi @Paul_Reading,
A 500 error means that the server wasn’t able to complete the request made by the Googlebot.
So what happened, is that the Googlebot noticed that there were pages to be indexed (your blog posts), requested them from your server, and got an error from the server instead.
The reason for this happening, can vary. For starters, it could be that the Googlebot is trying to index the wrong URLs. For example, if you’ve secured your site with SSL, and Googlebot tries to access the non-ssl (http://) version of the URL, AND your .htaccess forwards these files incorrectly, then this can happen. The same goes the other way around.
Another possibility is that the server actually was “on the fritz” during the window in which Googlebot was trying to index the pages. Manually requesting an indexation could remedy this if this is the case.
That RapidWeaver doesn’t list the pages in sitemap is correct, as these are not real webpages. These blog pages are generated on the fly by your blogging solution.
Pinging @instacks > is there a setting in Poster that will force the blog posts into the sitemap?
Cheers,
Erwin
Thank you for your reply. Instacks have sent me a link to a sitemap that they create and I have added it to Google Console it will be interesting to see what happens now. my hosting company charges a lot of money for https so my site is not secure. It really annoys me but short of moving the site there is not much I can do.
