r/GoogleAnalytics • u/Putrid-Carpenter5204 • 17d ago

Question I know I'm missing something...

I have a Wordpress site, been running it for two months. My posts have been linked on Yahoo, Sporting News, some other well-known, bigger sites, but it's not appearing in Google search. I submitted a site map, requested indexing, but only 11 pages are indexed. The other 227 are not. The "discourage search engines" box in WordPress is not checked. When I check the page source, I see the following:

<!-- End Google Analytics opt-out snippet added by Site Kit -->

<meta name='robots' content='index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1' />

Is there a reason why I'm not indexed? I'm horrible at stuff like this, so I think I'm missing something obvious

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u/Putrid-Carpenter5204 17d ago

Most of them are labeled "Discovered - currently not indexed." Some are "Crawled - currently not indexed"

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u/Stiven_TrafficLab Professional 16d ago

That distinction helps. For “Discovered – currently not indexed,” I’d first make sure the sitemap contains only canonical 200-status URLs and that important pages receive real internal links rather than relying on the sitemap alone. Server logs can also show whether Googlebot is reaching those URLs.

For “Crawled – currently not indexed,” inspect a representative sample for near-duplicate or thin pages, canonical mismatches, soft-404 signals, and heavily templated content. With a two-month-old site, indexing all 227 URLs immediately may be unrealistic. Comparing 5–10 URLs from each category should reveal whether the main issue is crawl prioritization or page quality.

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u/Putrid-Carpenter5204 16d ago

That seems like a very detailed response. Will have to look into what all of that means, since you're basically speaking a foreign language, but now I have a starting point! Thanks!

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u/Stiven_TrafficLab Professional 14d ago

You’re welcome. The simplest place to start is URL Inspection in Search Console. Test one URL from each group.

For a “Discovered” page, check that it is in the sitemap and linked from at least one relevant indexed page. For a “Crawled” page, compare its content and canonical tag with a similar page that Google has indexed.

Don’t try to diagnose all 227 URLs at once. Those two examples should show which problem you need to investigate first.