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Why Google and Bing hate my website?

Hi there,

I’ve been facing a frustrating issue and I'm running out of ideas on how to resolve it. I launched a Docusaurus-based website in October 2024. Although it only really had meaningful content in November, the homepage was indexed shortly after.

At first, the site was quite minimal aside from the main page, but I’ve been consistently adding more pages, documentation, and blog posts since then.

Bing initially took longer than Google to pick it up, but once it did, it indexed most of the site and even ranked it highly for relevant keywords (like the name of my website). That lasted for a few weeks, until Bing suddenly removed the site from its index entirely. I’ve submitted a support ticket but haven't heard back yet.

That was strange enough, but now it seems Google is also not keen on indexing the site properly. It only indexes the homepage, even though it crawls almost the entire site multiple times a day. Early on, submitting a manual crawl request would take days—but now it responds quickly, yet still refuses to index new pages.

I’ve improved the Lighthouse scores, console says it's indexable, refined the content and keywords, added a lot more material, and even secured hundreds of backlinks (not paid, mostly not social). Despite all that, there's been no improvement in indexing.

Anyone have any idea? I'm not sure anymore what to do.

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