I built a site and AI generated about 200 poor quality SEO blog entries, back when I naively underestimated google's site quality control. The blogs weren't all that much related to my site specific function (for context the site is for help for a specific thing in an education system, and I published blog entries for the whole education system of little unique value). The blogs didn't have internal linking or linking of any kind and were just text blobs + CTA visual elements in between. Google caught on and demoted most of those pages, and my traffic dropped to max 20 daily impressions. Now I get more clicks/traffic but because users search up the name of my site directly as other marketing sources are succeeding. I'd like to retry this blog approach but with proper high quality blog entries. But now I'm wondering wether im on google's bad side and this effort will be futile. Furthermore overall, is my entire site not liked by google? Should I just focus on...
Why would Google keep a single location page in “Discovered – currently not indexed” for over a year while all sibling location pages index normally?
I’m troubleshooting a single page indexing issue that doesn’t seem to align with typical explanations around timing, quality, or technical setup. The site has multiple location-based service pages , and almost all of them indexed normally. One page, however, remains stuck. Situation Indexed location pages on the same site include: Montreal Miami Fort Lauderdale New York City Philadelphia All of these pages indexed relatively quickly after publishing. However, the New Jersey service page has been live for over a year and still has not been indexed. Current Search Console status: Current Search Console Signals Search Console shows: URL is known to Google Sitemap detected Discovery source detected Crawl fields currently show N/A (no recent crawl) So Google appears to know the page exists , but it has not been crawled again in the current indexing cycle. The page also appears when doing a site search , which further suggests Google is aware of the URL. Steps alr...