Google Search Console Error

[OscarMike]

Hi guys, I have a poker tips site with 100% unique content. I submitted it to Google Search Console in Jan. It was indexed by Google immediately. I'm a bit concerned though. Recently, I've been getting an error message that says: "Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’"

It's a wordpress site. I made sure that I didn't request that it doesn't get indexed in the Wordpress settings.

The site no longer appears in the Google search results.

I did a test by typing in site:mysite.com into Google

What do I do? I requested re-submition in the Google Search Console but that was over a month ago. Its status is still marked "pending." Do you know how long Google typically takes to solve these issues? Should I just get a new domain?

Can you please help?

 

[Graybeard]

open //yoursite.whatever/robots.txt what does it say? is it even there?
look at a head in view source code in you browser> what does the meta tag look like?

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> or
 <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

 

[OscarMike]

open //yoursite.whatever/robots.txt what does it say? is it even there?
look at a head in view source code in you browser> what does the meta tag look like?

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> or
 <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

Hi Graybeard, thanks for the reply.

It says:

# XML Sitemap & Google News version 5.3.3 - XML Sitemap & Google News for WordPress
Sitemap: https://mysite.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml

How do I change it to "allow"? Wordpress settings says it allows it to be crawled by search engines though.

 

[OscarMike]

that is correct
robots.txt
* means all in regex all search engines allowed
Disallow: (means ok to index)
Disallow:/ (means no to index all)

Google does not like you or your domain maybe -- makes no sense at all.

take that top Sitemap: out
leave the bottom Sitemap: in

I am assuming you replaced mysite as an alias and it has the real domain in that file?

Yes that's true. Thanks for your help.

 

[Graybeard]

User-agent: *
Disallow:

that is correct
robots.txt
* means all in regex all search engines allowed
Disallow: (means ok to index)
Disallow:/ (means no to index all)

Google does not like you or your domain maybe -- makes no sense at all.

take that top Sitemap: out
leave the bottom Sitemap: in

I am assuming you replaced mysite as an alias and it has the real domain in that file?

 

[T J Tutor]

Did you buy the domain from another individual or from an auction site?

It is possible the previous owner had created bad blood with the big G.

 

[Honeybadger]

Best place to ask

Google Search Central Community

 

[VeronicaWoodruff]

If Google Search Console reports a server error, it means that Googlebot couldn't access your URL, the request timed out, or your site was busy. As a result, Googlebot was forced to abandon the request.