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You're right, this post is based on personal anecdotal experience. I have access to Google Search Console data for over 100 websites, and most have many pages i

You're right, this post is based on personal anecdotal experience. I have access to Google Search Console data for over 100 websites, and most have many pages in the "Discovered - currently not indexed" and "Crawled - currently not indexed" categories, despite ranking well for some keywords and getting traffic. This wasn't the case 10 years ago. Regarding "Google never indexed everything" - I'd say it came close. They did manual de-indexing for heavy spam sites and would even send an email when they did this. Apart from that, nearly everything was in the index, including duplicates. De-duplication happened at the ranking stage, not the indexing stage. At some point, Google even had a second index, the Google Supplemental Index, for pages of lower importance.

crazygringo 2y ago
But you haven't described what kind of websites they are, or what kind of content. You haven't provided even any comparison screenshots from over the years, much less graphs showing that this is an actual quantitative trend, as opposed to you just noticing different things now and maybe not remembering things entirely accurately. I'm not saying that you're not telling the truth about your observations. But I am saying that you provide absolutely no basis for making broad sweeping generalizations about Google Search changing its "defaults". Maybe you work in a category of low-quality content, while people in other categories have seen more of their pages indexed. The point is, your personal qualitative observations from a miniscule subset of 100 sites is nowhere near sufficient to make a provocative headline claim such as "Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content".
- hackerbeat 2y ago
  Nah, OP is right. Happens for all new sites these days, regardless of the niche.
  - altdataseller 2y ago
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    - hackerbeat 2y ago
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      - altdataseller 2y ago
        You’re the one making a nonchalant claim “nah op is right” unbacked by evidence, not me
        hackerbeat 2y ago
        Like you run around with evidence all day to back up your comments and statements. Ever heard of experience? OP and I have been through this for years, no need for a PowerPoint for everyone who asks. Also, you're just defending Google here for no reason, while they're breaking the web. Please continue if that makes you feel better and smarter.
        altdataseller 2y ago
        I’ve been doing search engine optimization, and trying to rank websites since Altavista, Google Panda, Penguin, exact match domain spam, etc since early 2000s and almost all pages of sites I’ve created have been indexed. So we can fight anecdata vs anecdata all day. And i’m not even defending Google. They’re awful especially their recent decision to sell their domain biz to Squarespace. I hate Google as much as you. But whether Google is good or bad has nothing to do with this. Thats an emotional strawman

crazygringo 2y ago

But you haven't described what kind of websites they are, or what kind of content. You haven't provided even any comparison screenshots from over the years, much less graphs showing that this is an actual quantitative trend, as opposed to you just noticing different things now and maybe not remembering things entirely accurately. I'm not saying that you're not telling the truth about your observations. But I am saying that you provide absolutely no basis for making broad sweeping generalizations about Google Search changing its "defaults". Maybe you work in a category of low-quality content, while people in other categories have seen more of their pages indexed. The point is, your personal qualitative observations from a miniscule subset of 100 sites is nowhere near sufficient to make a provocative headline claim such as "Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content".

hackerbeat 2y ago
Nah, OP is right. Happens for all new sites these days, regardless of the niche.
- altdataseller 2y ago
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  - hackerbeat 2y ago
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    - altdataseller 2y ago
      You’re the one making a nonchalant claim “nah op is right” unbacked by evidence, not me
      - hackerbeat 2y ago
        Like you run around with evidence all day to back up your comments and statements. Ever heard of experience? OP and I have been through this for years, no need for a PowerPoint for everyone who asks. Also, you're just defending Google here for no reason, while they're breaking the web. Please continue if that makes you feel better and smarter.
        altdataseller 2y ago
        I’ve been doing search engine optimization, and trying to rank websites since Altavista, Google Panda, Penguin, exact match domain spam, etc since early 2000s and almost all pages of sites I’ve created have been indexed. So we can fight anecdata vs anecdata all day. And i’m not even defending Google. They’re awful especially their recent decision to sell their domain biz to Squarespace. I hate Google as much as you. But whether Google is good or bad has nothing to do with this. Thats an emotional strawman