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I've got this super odd behaviour from Google Indexing my website

Every week, Google de-indexes a couple of my pages on a website I run. The websites have no redundant content, they don't use any copyrighted material, etc, etc.

When checking in Google Search Console, the websites come out as indexable. When running a crawl on Ahrefs to see health and quality and crawlability of the pages, they all come across as 100% healthy and crawlable.

Anyone ever seen this before?

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Siavosh Zarrasvand
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Usually they list why in the "Therefore, the pages are not indexed" box in the "pages" menu. Can you provide af screenshot of that in GSC?

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The reasons they list just don't apply. Sure. Will sort out a screenshot.

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See added screenshot at the original post (only way I an add I screenshot)

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Hmm I am assuming that you already have pressed "Request index". Other than that there is not much to do other than wait for google to index it, sometimes it just takes time.

You could also try one of the "get indexed instantly" services but I wouldn't recommend it as they violate google's terms

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Yeah, tried it. I've now gone down from 230 indexed pages to 144.

I figured it isn't much I can do at this point. Spread the content and eventually google will find it.

Funily enough, I actually receive more traffic from each of Baidu, Yandex and Bing than I receive from Google.

I think that shows how much trouble Google has. There is so much shitty spam they simply don't know what to index, and the users are starting to realise and leave.

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Yeah thats also what i gather from twitter, that people doing programmatic seo are experiencing a downtrend

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I'm not doing programmatic SEO though... I'm doing the old vanilla, based on purely my content.

At this point Google just sucks, plain and simple. Again, I get more traffic from Baidu alone, or Yandex alone, or Bing alone.

And the quality of the traffic is okay, people coming through organic search from other avenues than Google spend a fair bit of time on the websites.

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