Index Sitemap Discovered URL is Zero and Greyed Out

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Hi @mikes41720,

First of all, thanks for your response. I am struggling to fix the issue. Just a few days back all my posts were well indexed and ranking quite well on the google search. Suddenly from the last 7-10 days, I noticed that the posts that were raking on page 1 and 2 of google are not there. I though that it would be a temporary issue. But slowly I observed that all my posts were getting vanished from the google search. Also, I observed that the new posts were not getting indexed. Still, there are 4-5 posts that have been recently published and not indexed.

I further analysed GSC and took some screenshots. I observed that all the keywords (mostly very low competition) are getting dropped by google. There was a time few days back when around 4000 keywords were ranking but as of yesterday, I saw that only 7 keywords are ranked on google.

As stated earlier, I observed that sitemap_index.xml is not able to show child sitemaps. Also discovered URL is not visible against any of the sitemaps. Believe me this issue was not at all there a few days back. Infact each and every posts were indexed and most of then were raking somewhere between page 1 to page 10 of google.

Today almost none of the keywords are ranking.

However if we look at site:truebuddy.in, we see that there are about 466 results. But none of them we can find on google if we search as per the keywords.

I have taken a few snapshots from GSC that will help you to analyse the issue. I also contached my hosting and they have provided a logs to be shared with you –

Logs given by hosting provider:

https://support-tools.com/?b526a072c98a7dbb#Ot3M/6FZeeTp+Lw/PyqyaBy60Uj6uMIJKm/Iyzzbp08=

Here are the screen shots from GSC

Discovered URL Greyed Out

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XjR_pkGWAIxolVlK0d-_IsYbJWR2rgAU/view?usp=sharing

Performance Last 3 months:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BCIu-1lD4LgQeZKCb_ZT30Efh6wGM-9c/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_rSodDNEqE2e5o6U8VLOuYy88tKL9m-/view?usp=sharing

Performance Last 7 days
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bvpgyTnEdckfBMSQ9WDVxx4HWLCuy6Hm/view?usp=sharing

Performance as on 02-june-2022
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tx75uGWpV1k6LB6IISc3PqVY5QGJdXTp/view?usp=sharing

Request you to please check and help in resoving the issue.

Hi @mikes41720,

First of all, thanks for your response. I am struggling to fix the issue. Just a few days back all my posts were well indexed and ranking quite well on the google search. Suddenly from the last 7-10 days, I noticed that the posts that were raking on page 1 and 2 of google are not there. I though that it would be a temporary issue. But slowly I observed that all my posts were getting vanished from the google search. Also, I observed that the new posts were not getting indexed. Still, there are 4-5 posts that have been recently published and not indexed.

I further analysed GSC and took some screenshots. I observed that all the keywords (mostly very low competition) are getting dropped by google. There was a time few days back when around 4000 keywords were ranking but as of yesterday, I saw that only 7 keywords are ranked on google.

As stated earlier, I observed that sitemap_index.xml is not able to show child sitemaps. Also discovered URL is not visible against any of the sitemaps. Believe me this issue was not at all there a few days back. Infact each and every posts were indexed and most of then were raking somewhere between page 1 to page 10 of google.

Today almost none of the keywords are ranking.

However if we look at site:truebuddy.in, we see that there are about 466 results. But none of them we can find on google if we search as per the keywords.

I have taken a few snapshots from GSC that will help you to analyse the issue. I also contached my hosting and they have provided a logs to be shared with you –

Logs given by hosting provider:

https://support-tools.com/?b526a072c98a7dbb#Ot3M/6FZeeTp+Lw/PyqyaBy60Uj6uMIJKm/Iyzzbp08=

Here are the screen shots from GSC

Discovered URL Greyed Out

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XjR_pkGWAIxolVlK0d-_IsYbJWR2rgAU/view?usp=sharing

Performance Last 3 months:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BCIu-1lD4LgQeZKCb_ZT30Efh6wGM-9c/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_rSodDNEqE2e5o6U8VLOuYy88tKL9m-/view?usp=sharing

Performance Last 7 days
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bvpgyTnEdckfBMSQ9WDVxx4HWLCuy6Hm/view?usp=sharing

Performance as on 02-june-2022
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tx75uGWpV1k6LB6IISc3PqVY5QGJdXTp/view?usp=sharing

Request you to please check and help in resoving the issue.

Hello Team,

Could you please analyze the issue? I am worried that none of the keywords are now appearing on google. Even the keywords with the least competition with only a handful of articles available are not appearing on google. Not sure what has happened but just weeks back there used to have around 1500 to 2000 impressions on google daily and that has become zero now!

Please look into the issue. I tried reinstalling the Yoast and disabled many plugins but still, nothing works!

Regards
Somya

Meanwhile, I hv removed all the cache plugins also. Not sure it will help or not! Please advise what else needs to be done to recover back my ranked keywords and get the URLs discovered in sitemap.

Expecting a positive solution from your end.

Regards
Sukumar

Hello Somya,

Thanks for elaborating.

Due to the nature of the issue, we’ll need to take a look at your setup. However, we are unable to do it here as this is a public forum. So, if you have an active Yoast SEO Premium subscription or if you can consider buying one, we can investigate the issue further directly on your setup privately through email.

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.