There were a lot of complaints made for the pages dropped in Google Indexing. Many tools showed fluctuations in the ranking. Last week it was predicted, there is some update in Google Search Ranking, however, that turned out to be a canonical issue.
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Complaints of De-Indexing Pages
A number of complaints about pages de-indexing have been made on many platforms. It is not yet claimed the main reason for the de-indexing but there is 100% a spike in complaints around indexing issues with Google as of this morning.
Some complaints made on Twitter are:
Had some key landing pages dropped out the index for no obvious reason today @sengineland @rustybrick – another bug?
— Michael James Field (Mikuss) (@Mikuss) September 30, 2020
Had some key landing pages dropped out the index for no obvious reason today @sengineland @rustybrick – another bug?
— Michael James Field (Mikuss) (@Mikuss) September 30, 2020
Similar story in GSC as well? No obvious factors as to why URL not indexed?
— Michael James Field (Mikuss) (@Mikuss) September 30, 2020
Google have stated that an indexing issue has been fixed, but it doesn't appear to be a news-only problem.
We're seeing this morning a few issues where pages are being de-indexed – hopefully this will be fixed soon? @searchliaison
cc: @rustybrick #SEO https://t.co/SmS9yXvagr
— Fibre (@Fibre_Marketing) September 30, 2020
Looks like there might be a deindexing issue again on Google. I had a page which deindexed (not the ongoing canonical issue). Google crawled but didn't index. Tested live URL in SC and said its should be indexed. Resubmitted for indexing and its back in the SERPs
— Sunny Matharu ? (@s_matharu) September 30, 2020
John Mueller Asked For the issue:
@JohnMu my company's home page just got de-indexed yesterday. how is it possible? no signs of trouble. Index issues again?
— bubble gum (@bubbleg34408153) September 30, 2020
I am struggling with same issue for several sites. Have upvoted and subscribed to the thread
— Bjørn Pedersen Due (@BPDue) September 30, 2020
Other Canonical Issue
It's even getting worse… Any news regarding that issue? pic.twitter.com/OLALQOO7y9
— Sebastian Schoener (@sebschoener) September 30, 2020
@JohnMu When searching "大洋路"(great ocean road in Traditional Chinese ) on desktop, Google shows https://t.co/wcMluhXfDC. The canonical of https://t.co/wcMluhXfDC is https://t.co/jgucq8trfM It also happens when searching 新天鵝堡(Schloss Neuschwanstein) P.S. It is my ex-company pic.twitter.com/nQLRrLw8SU
— Leo (@Leo89932179) September 30, 2020
Just one of many pages that died due to the wrong canonical. pic.twitter.com/NDNqfEtHPP
— Lars N. Graversen (@LNG_DK) September 30, 2020
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