: SEO Root Page Didn't Index I have a company webpage at "example1.com" and was developing a new webpage at "exemple2.com" (because it was everything already set). When I finished the page, I

@Chiappetta492

It looks like you may have messed this one up pretty good. By getting your example2.com indexed, Google chose to rank that domain over your example1.com. This was because of duplicate content. You should have been using a rel=canonical header pointing to example1.com to keep it in the SERPs.

Now that you have requested example2.com to be deindexed and removed the DNS, you can't even 301 redirect to example1.com or add the headers in for example2.com.

If you can forward example2.com to example1.com as a 301 redirect I recommend that you consider doing so. And if you do, remove that request to deindex example2.com so that they may crawl it and find example1.com again.

It may take some time for your homepage to get indexed by Google. There's no knowing just how long Google will take before indexing a page it has discovered. You may have to play the waiting game. But if you do the aforementioned things it's more likely that it will come back sooner.

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@Miguel251

It seems that you have duplicate content at some point. Next time, prevent example2.com from being indexed while you are working on it.

Once you want to disable example2.com, the best way to handle this is by generating a 301 redirect (one by one as long as it is possible) to example1.com.

If you didn't do it, now is the time.

Try to do a site:example1.com and check if the home is shown in the results

If it appears there, you just need to wait till Google decides to show your home in results. Check internal and external links to accelerate the process.

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