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Indexing issues, Please Help!

I’m facing a weird indexing issue with 2 pages on a client website and wanted some opinions from experienced SEOs here.

When I got this project, the website was in a very poor SEO state. There were almost no internal links, barely any backlinks, no proper technical optimization, no schema, weak content structure, etc. The previous agency had apparently already been trying to get these pages indexed, but they never succeeded.

After I took over the project, I completely reworked both pages:

- Rewrote and restructured the content

- Added FAQs

- Implemented schema markup

- Improved on-page SEO

- Added internal linking

- Worked on technical SEO improvements

- Optimized metadata and page structure

Basically, I did almost everything that would normally help with crawling and indexing.

But even after all this, those 2 pages are still not getting indexed in Google.

What’s confusing is that other pages on the website are indexing normally. It’s only these two pages that seem stuck.

So I wanted to ask:

- What are the possible hidden reasons for this?

- Could it be because Google had already devalued or ignored these URLs before?

- Could crawl quality/history of the site affect indexing this much?

- Has anyone faced a similar situation where everything looked technically correct but pages still refused to index?

Would really appreciate any advanced insights or troubleshooting ideas.

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