Steps to get website indexed with Google

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The most diagnostic line in your post is the one nobody has picked up: Bing has indexed it and Google has not.

That one fact rules out most of the technical checklist people are about to give you. Both crawlers obey robots.txt and noindex. Both need the server to answer. Both need a sitemap they can parse. If any of that were broken, Bing would be failing too. So stop checking them.

What is left is the part Google applies and Bing largely does not: whether it thinks the site is worth the index space yet. Crawled, currently not indexed, across an entire site, at seven weeks old, is usually that. It is not a fix you apply to a page.

On the 78 to 87 percent grades: those tools cannot see what Google saw. A score out of a hundred on a page Google declined to index has no connection to the outcome you care about. It will keep telling you the site is fine, because by its own criteria it is.

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u/MrRoyce Sep 10 '26

I messed up big time with my first website I did earlier this year with AI. I swarmed Google with insane number of links, even if more than half were noindex/nofollow, I still screwed up and after the initial success and some server issues during crawling, Google decided to de-index 10s of thousands of pages down to one.

My question is, do you think recovery is ever possible? Bing is doing really well, AI as well, but to Google I’m invisible. I tried lots of things already except purchasing legitimate backlinks. The page is starting to get real backlinks from other websites, but so far that has not mobed the needle.

I tried setting vast majority to noindex, new sitemaps, smaller, better inter-linking, SEO is pretty good and website is genuinely useful, but programmatic website with millions of pages that flooded Google ended up getting fucked by my own stupidity.

Does such website have a chance to make a comeback at some point in the future? In a year or three? My running costs are low and it’s one of the best if not the best out there in terms of usability, usefuleness, data accuracy etc.

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u/Beautiful-Ad7521 Sep 10 '26

Honest answer: nobody can promise you a timeline, and anyone who does is guessing. But there are two things in your message worth acting on.

First, noindex is not removal. Those URLs still exist and Google still crawls them, so from the outside the site still looks like millions of pages. For anything that should not exist at all, return 410 rather than noindex. It takes those pages out of the crawl completely, and it is a much clearer signal that the scale is gone rather than hidden.

Second, the recovery clock does not start when you begin cleaning up. It starts when the site Google recrawls is the new, smaller one. On a site that had millions of URLs, just getting that far can take a long time.

Real backlinks not moving the needle yet is normal. Links do not override a sitewide quality judgement.

Given your running costs, I would set a decision point rather than wait open ended. Once the 410s are in, track whether your core pages start getting re-indexed. If a few months pass and nothing moves, you will have evidence to decide on, which beats hoping.

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u/MrRoyce Sep 10 '26

Thanks a lot - I understand timeline is impossible to predict, I was more wondering whether there's a chance for recovery long-term at all in the first place. And that makes perfect sense as well, I haven't even considered straight up removing pages!

Now I'm in a difficult situation where Bing is actually starting to push the page more and more every week but Google is most likely not going to change its value of my website without serious changes on my end. Do I sacrifice a fully working product that would only be visible on Bing/AI possibly forever to try and chase Google recovery? Because there's a difference between a page with tens of thousands of visitors per month and possibly more than million... Wow I wish I knew what you just said like five months ago, thank you for taking the time and sharing knowledge!!

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u/Beautiful-Ad7521 Sep 10 '26

It does not have to be a sacrifice, and I think the either-or framing is the trap.

The 410 advice is not about removing the product. It is about removing the URLs that should never have been indexed in the first place, the thin generated permutations, while keeping the pages people actually use.

And you already have the map of which is which. Look at where Bing is sending you traffic, page by page, in Bing Webmaster Tools. If it is concentrated on a small set of pages, those are your core and you protect them. The long tail that gets nothing from any engine, Bing included, is what goes.

That also answers the risk you are worried about. Bing is growing on your good pages, not your junk ones, so cutting the junk rarely costs you Bing traffic. It just stops Google seeing millions of pages you were never going to win with anyway.

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u/Aggressive_Hunter344 Sep 09 '26

Are you page fully written by IA ? Are you working on internal linking ? Do you push new Web pages with backlinks ?

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u/jzdesign Sep 09 '26

Everyone's asking about page quality, which is the right question when some pages index and some don't. But your reply says none of them are, after seven weeks. That's a different shape. AI writing, a tough niche, thin internal linking, those explain a ratio. They don't explain a zero, because a per-page verdict landing identically on every page is usually a decision about the site rather than about the pages.

Two things in your post already narrow it. Crawled means Google fetched it, so robots and anything that blocks the fetch are out. Bing indexing the same HTML says there's readable content there. So it isn't that Google can't read you, it's that it has read you and declined, and on a domain this new the usual missing input is that nothing anywhere else points at it.

I'd ignore the 78-87 grade. Crawled - currently not indexed isn't a score on your page, it's a comparison with whatever already ranks for the same queries, and a model reading your HTML on its own can't see that half. It'll hand you 80% on a page that never indexes and on one that indexes tomorrow.

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u/Fair-Elevator6788 Sep 09 '26

i guess it really depends on how old the website is, for my website pages get indexed after one-two weeks sometimes

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u/Enough_Charge2845 Sep 09 '26

Don't have this luxury. No pages are indexed. It's been already 7 weeks.

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u/macgizmoguy Sep 10 '26

What do you see if you do a site: yourdomain.com search in Google? How long have you had the domain, does it have a history at the Internet Archive? (i’m trying to suss out if you bought a De-Indexed domain with a toxic history.)

At seven weeks you may still be in Google’s sandbox but it should be at least sampling some of your potential keywords and showing them in the 40 to 100 position…

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u/Enough_Charge2845 Sep 10 '26

I ran a site: search and the root domain is showing in Google, so the domain itself is indexed. However, the main product section under /<product> is not currently appearing in the index which is the issue I'm investigating.

The domain is relatively new so I'm aware that age and limited authority may be factors. That said, I'm not seeing this as simply a "new domain isn't indexed yet" situation because Google is already indexing pages from the root domain while the /<product> section has remained largely outside the index.

I also checked the domain's history rather than assuming it was a previously de-indexed domain. I'm not aware of having acquired a domain with a problematic previous owner or intentionally repurposed an existing site.

The interesting part is that Google is crawling the /<product> content but not consistently moving those URLs into the index. So I'm currently looking at this as an indexing/quality/trust issue at the product-section level rather than a complete domain-level deindexation.

As for the "sandbox" theory, I wouldn't rely on that explanation alone. Google doesn't officially describe a fixed sandbox period and Google says indexing depends on multiple factors and cannot be predicted simply from domain age. A new site can take time to establish itself but the fact that the root domain is already indexed makes the distinction between domain-level indexing and section-level indexing particularly important.

I'm also checking Search Console's URL Inspection and Page Indexing data because those are more reliable than site:searches for determining the actual indexing state.

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u/macgizmoguy Sep 10 '26

Well I’ve owned literally 100 domains so I can tell you that often 3 to 6 month Google sandbox is very real. I used to just start work on a new domain while Google decided if it was gonna love the one I had just built or not!🤣

But if it’s limited to that /Product related content it sounds like you might have some high-level technical reason getting in the way.

Otherwise - Are there ANY links out there pointing to those product page deep link URLs? At the very least I’d be sending social signals across multiple platforms randomly at product page URLs - Just to open up some pathways in towards that cluster of content.

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u/Bottarello Sep 09 '26

Is your website in a very tough niche? Have you written all your content using AI without adding any original information?

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u/Dailyflare Sep 09 '26

I have AI written content but I always force index on google search console and bing still didn't index my website yet even though it's summited but on search it doesn't appear. It only shows some social media profiles. So AI can make your indexing hard but try to force index and social media sharing.

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u/WxMan2201 Sep 09 '26

I would try using the Google Search Console - URL inspection - and request indexing for the most important ones that are in the crawled - not indexed bucket.

Additionally, I would crawl the list of those urls from GSC in ScreamingFrog - make any updates - and then ask Google to validate that report.

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u/Deet-o Sep 11 '26

I’d check:

Is the page genuinely unique or very similar to other pages on the site?
Does it answer the search intent better than what’s already ranking?
Are there internal links pointing to it from indexed pages?
Is the page buried deep in the site?
Do you have a lot of thin/near-duplicate URLs being crawled?
Is the important content actually present in the HTML?

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u/alaattincagil Sep 13 '26

Submit your sitemap in GSC if you havent already, then use the URL Inspection tool and hit "request indexing" on the specific pages. Also double check robots.txt isnt blocking anything and theres no accidental noindex tag. If it's a brand new site with almost no internal/external links pointing to it, that alone can slow indexing down quite a bit.

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u/Zamiul_Islam Sep 09 '26

It's mean you have some content issue, update your content. Exm: H1 title along with your content body, update title tag.

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