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Why Google won't crawl/index some of the pages

I submitted the sitemap in Mar 12, and Google Search Console shows that it has discovered 20 pages. However, it never crawled 18 out of the 20 pages with a reason saying "Discovered - Currently not indexed". I waited a week, then yesterday those 18 pages also disappeared in the Pages graph and not even showing up in the not indexed list anymore. There is no change to the sitemap.xml. What's the issue and how can I fix it? For context, this is a relatively new domain with a newly released product. submitted by /u/cllu [link] [comments] from Search Engine Optimization: The Latest SEO News https://ift.tt/4jiJyXa
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New to blogging

Started my self improvement & lifestyle blog this year. And honestly I’m a bit confused about everything. Especially with regard to SEO and keyword research. Any pointers for a first timer? submitted by /u/Qatara77 [link] [comments] from Search Engine Optimization: The Latest SEO News https://ift.tt/6iqpaNV
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I Made My Article More “Trustworthy” and Lost Rankings

I had an article ranking on page 1 in Google. Recently, I watched a video from Edward Sturm about improving SEO by adding outbound links to authoritative sources. It made sense, so I went back and updated the article. Before, I had references to medical studies, but they were just mentioned in text, not clickable. I changed that and added proper outbound links (dofollow) to reputable sites like WebMD and NHS. The content itself didn’t change. Same structure, same intent, same information. The only real difference was making those references clickable and more “legit”. Four days later, the article dropped from page 1 to page 2, around position 16. I’m honestly trying to understand what happened. Did adding those links somehow dilute the page’s focus? Did it shift the perceived intent from practical to more academic? Or was it just a re-evaluation after Google recrawled the page? What’s interesting is that before, with no active links, it was ranking just fine. After improving th...
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Can a page with low authority still rank if the content quality and UX are exceptional?

I keep seeing mixed takes on this. Some say authority is everything and without it Google will never give you a shot for competitive terms. Others argue that if the content is genuinely helpful and the UX keeps people engaged time on site and interaction signals can push a page up even without strong backlinks. I have seen a few examples of smaller sites outranking big players for niche queries and it makes me wonder how much weight Google actually puts on user behavior versus domain authority. Curious what others have seen in the wild. Is authority the gatekeeper or can great content and UX really overcome it? submitted by /u/zaralesliewalker [link] [comments] from Search Engine Optimization: The Latest SEO News https://ift.tt/JyHNIwr
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Can I salvage my SEO blog?

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...
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