If you are experiencing issues with google indexing and google is not indexing new articles pages of your website, the first thing you need to check is “is there any google indexing issue bug” and “is there any google code algorithm update rolled out”. There are many reasons why google is not indexing your website and lets see them in detail below and fix google not indexing your new article pages and old.
First things first to check google not indexing new article pages
1) Check whether is there any google indexing bug.
2) Check whether google core algorithm rolled
3) Spammy Content
All Solutions and Fix for Google not Indexing New Article Pages:
Google did not crawl your website to Index:
If google did not crawl your website article page or you home page, then google will not be able to index and to make google crawl your website, then login to search console and submit your website and article pages to google and request indexing.
Meta Tag noindex nofollow google will not index your article pages:
If Google bot is blocked by adding a meta tag noindex, nofollow on your website or article pages, then google bot will not index. Google bot noindex, nofollow means telling google bot not to index this page and google will not index if noindex meta tag is declared on your webpage or article page on your website.
Spammy content and google not indexing new article pages
If your website article are copied or duplicate or looks like spammy with lot of links or rewritten article by software’s or etc, then google bot will not index for sure and it has been said by google officials that google bot will ignore and will not index spammy content in google search and instead it will avoid crawling those pages as well. That is why it is always recommended to publishers to provide unique content on their website which is helpful for users not for google bot.
Server Issues on your website and 500 internal server error google will not crawl and index:
On your website when google bot tried to crawl your website and If google bot encounters 500 internal server error on your website, then google bot will back-off and will not crawl your website, Some time google bot will crawl excessively and will lead to server issues. Make sure that you are not throwing any server errors on your website and make google bot crawl your website efficiently and smoothly.
DNS issues google not indexing you new and old articles of your website:
If you have any Server DNS issues which is domain name server issues with SSL setup and 301 redirection issues then google bot will find difficult to crawl and index your new articles pages on your website.
301 redirects issues with SSL certificate:
If you have setup new SSL certificate on your website and if you have not setup server redirects properly, i.e. all domain versions should redirect to httpS versions of your website. During 301 server redirects from http to https some times server raises 500 error or domain name mapping error DNS errors, if this is the issue your then google not indexing new article pages on your website this could be the reason.
Mixed Content and google not indexing new article pages?
If you are having mixed content that is, http version of website is returning 200 ok response and httpS version of website is also returning same content with 200 ok response, then this is considered as duplicate content on your website and google will avoid crawling both versions of your website (http and https) versions and google will not index new article pages.
To fix this issue you need to setup server side 301 redirections and redirect all versions which is www, non-www and http version to httpS version of website. ( you should have one version of website which is httpS version) and declare httpS canonical for every page on your website.
Duplicate content and google not indexing new article pages?
If you are having duplicate content on your website then google will not index. Avoid duplicate content on your website (within website).
Copied Content and google not indexing new article pages?
If you are having copied content from different website and if google bot finds that similar content is already present on different website then you need to get rid of all copied content, since google search indexes only unique content not copied content and this is the reasons why google not indexing new article pages.
Copyright issue and google not indexing new article pages?
If you are having copyright issue on your website flagged then you need to fix as per DMCA and lumen database and clear the copyright to get google bot index your website again in google search.
Not Secure Flagged and google not indexing new article pages
If you are website is not secure and flagged by google chrome browser then you need to have secure version of your website implementing httpS version with SSL certificate. Google wants users to trust your website and if not secure is flagged google bot is not trusting you website and this could be on of the reason.
If Website is hacked and google not indexing new article pages?
If your website is hacked and in search console you have received and error saying your website is hacked then you need to fix this issue and remove the hacked files or folder and clean your website and make your website hack proof and secure and fix this error by submitting your website in search console. Once google detects that your website is not hacked and did not found any hacked content then your website will be indexed again in google search.
If Malicious Scripts found and google not indexing new article pages
If google bot founds any malicious scripts found on your website then google bot will straightway throw and error in search console saying -> malicious scripts found on your website and in order to get indexed in google, you need to remove these malicious scripts and google bot will also tell you what are those scripts and where are those scripts found on your website. Once the malicious scripts are removed from your website, go ahead submit your website and ask for review in search console.
Japanese Keyword Hack and google not indexing new article pages
Japanese keyword hack is most common issue found on several websites and if google bot founds this Japanese keyword hack google will not index your website and it will completely remove your website from google. Find the hack and remove any suspicious files and remove injected keywords and spam links etc and submit it for review.