: Google not indexing pages after lengthly accidental noindex meta tag For 5 months I accidentally had thousands of pages from my site marked with a noindex meta tag, due to a bug in my code.
For 5 months I accidentally had thousands of pages from my site marked with a noindex meta tag, due to a bug in my code. Some of these came up as "soft 404" errors in GWT, but only a small portion.
I fixed this a couple of weeks ago and resubmitted my sitemaps, but it's still showing that only ~30,000 of my ~160,000 sitemap URLs are indexed. This is essentially the same as it was 2 weeks ago when I spotted the problem.
It used to much more along the lines of ~150,000 of 160,000 indexed.
Is there anything I can do to help get these pages back into Google's indexes?
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Are you actively updating your sitemaps when changes occurr or do you upload them every once in a while? I would recommend updating your sitemaps regularly IF your website is frequently updated. This will make Google come visit your website and update/crawl your website and sitemaps more often.
Do you have a Google Search Console account?
I would suggest that you Fetch as Google (in the Crawl menu). For instance one of the pages that were affected or one or two levels above in the site hierarcy.
After a minutes you get the option to "Request indexing". Do that and pick the option "Crawl this URL and its direct links".
Now wait for Google to index your website and check status after a week. Be patient.. these things can take time.
Good luck @Codemonkey !
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