My Discourse forum deindexed from Google

[cnrtechspot.com]

Hello, never mind my username.

This is my forum:

Campfire Forum

It’s online about 1 month. It was indexed but Google deindexed it 1 week later.

I sent sitemap links. I am requesting specific evergreen pages to index. I am providing backlinks from Medium.com , Substack, IG-Threads, and a couple websites too. Also, internal links surely. I am writing long-form posts as blog.

And I see “Crawled - but not indexed” in all time. I am requesting to index, 1-2 mins later, automatically, that crawled - but not indexed is happening.

On URL inspection page, there is typed “Temporary processing error” for sitemap.

What can I do to solve?

[chapoi]

For a new forum without much content, this is the expected behaviour from Google.

Take a look at this post where Sam goes a bit deeper into this exact situation

SEO - Pages crawled but not Indexed

We have seen this problematic pattern in the past with some other sites. In many ways, Google is a black box and it behaves in mysterious ways. That said, there is some general guidance that I think is important to follow: Establish authority for your domain Google is built on PageRank. The more inbound links your forum has, the better the PageRank. When I search for keycloak.discourse.group, the top link is on meta (this topic), but number #2 is: [image] The #2 authoritative answer Google…

[cnrtechspot.com]

It that temporary? Will Google index my forum in future?

Also, if main page is categories (top menu), is that affect SEO? When main page is categories, Google Search Console see static categories without topics as HTML on live test. I turned to latest cause of that. But categories is nicer.

[chapoi]

@cnrtechspot.com

It that temporary? Will Google index my forum in future?

Yes, it should, provided there is enough content, and I’m not an SEO expert. As stated in that linked topic

@sam

In many ways, Google is a black box and it behaves in mysterious ways.