Special Crawl or No Crawl Report - Indexed Page Reports Delayed -
February 6, 2025 - Day 1244 of Indexation Research
Welcome to Crawl or No Crawl Report for today. I’m sharing this will all accounts.
For two reasons.
I think it is curious about the delay in our search console accounts for the indexed page reports. At the same time the delay plus the presence of another thing, both seemingly unrelated to each other, have sent my indexation sensibilities on high alert.
I will share my thoughts about the delay in this report.
The other aspect will need more time to confirm and until I’ve enough data points, I’d rather keep it to myself.
Search Console Indexed Pages Reports
Normally, our reports update every 3 days. Together. We’re one day past the typical update.
Lately, the indexation tests help me “see” that the cache we used to be able to access still exists - its just our ability to access it that went away.
For instance, the previous tests for the past 2 days searching for them by their keywords - the only way Google returns the test pages in results is when I search for the keywords in “quotes”.
in the served SERPS - these pages are not in them
when searched by “quotes”, the pages are served
Where Is Google Storing These Alternative Results
Exactly.
We used to refer to this as a cache.
Unless one is testing in this specific way it would be challenging to see this.
Why This Is Important To Understand
At this time in the search console data cycle, if you’ve published or modified content and either you can’t find it or you don’t see any positive movement on your edits, my advice is not to change anything until search console data is updated.
The Second Thing
Yes, the second seemingly unrelated aspect that might be related to this delay.
I am gathering the data and checking it against GSC and the SERPs - and if my hypothesis holds, you’re not going to want to miss it.
I’m going to share it with all IndexZilla account holders.
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Even with a free trial account not only will you get in on the webinar but also an account that comes with 25 free credits for the first month which can be used to submit content you want to get indexed - backlinks or money site, you name it.
Meanwhile
Tomorrow morning - export your Search Console Indexed Page Reports
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