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braymond64 Posted August 4 Posted August 4 The Google Search Console is showing that only two of my pages are being indexed -- 11,400 pages are not. The main reasons are Page with Redirect and Blocked by robots.txt. But in my configuration I have Invision Community Optimized checked for the Crawl Management setting. I'm not sure how to get this working. Thanks.
Jim M Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Do you have an example of what you're seeing and what you're expecting to have indexed? Keep in mind that not all pages will be indexed, even though they may be available to be indexed. You are indeed using our optimized robots.txt so items which are included in there would be pages which shouldn't be indexed.
braymond64 Posted August 6 Author Posted August 6 Here's what I am seeing. I inadvertently clicked validate, so it is revalidating even though no changes have been made. Users don't have to be logged in to view topics (only to post to them), so I would expect all topics to be indexed. Also, there are about 50 uploaded files - I think those pages should also be indexed. Thanks.
Stuart Silvester Posted August 6 Posted August 6 Pages like that are quite normal, we intentional block search engines from pages with redirects and low-quality content so they don't waste their time trying to index them. Your site has far more than 2 pages indexed, I can see via Google for example, that you have a lot of content indexed going back at least 10 years.
braymond64 Posted August 6 Author Posted August 6 How do I know how many pages I have on the site? And I'm not sure where all of these redirects are. The topics may have external links, but they shouldn't be redirecting anywhere.
Marc Posted August 6 Posted August 6 1 hour ago, braymond64 said: How do I know how many pages I have on the site? And I'm not sure where all of these redirects are. The topics may have external links, but they shouldn't be redirecting anywhere. you can google something like this site: yourSite.com Daniel F 1
braymond64 Posted August 20 Author Posted August 20 Right. So the Google console report is really inaccurate. Is that normal? Is there any way to tell what pages it considers having redirects?
Marc Posted August 20 Posted August 20 As its a google item, you would need to ask them that question really. There would be no way to tell that, unfortunately.
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