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Atsakyti į: „Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?“
Google Search Central•2022-11-30
May I ask what are your thoughts about the thing that Google does not read/consider the old sitemap? I think if I manage to make Google crawl the sitemap things will improve considerably.
Why is that?
- Is see on the old domain that some pages have been last crawled on June (right after I did the domain migration). Some of these pages are also marked as "Crawled not indexed" or "Page is not indexed: Duplicate, Google chose different canonical" instead of "Page with redirect" since they haven't been crawled for ages. This is another signal that Google does not read the sitemap.
- The crawling rate on images is deadly slow (3-5 crawls per day) and I have more than 5000 images on the old domain that needs to be crawled and marked as redirect. Considering that Google has no sitemap, it has no source to see the old URLs of images and confirm the redirect.
- Google keep crawling the category pages on the old domain over and over again. If it would read the sitemap I'm sure it would visit inner pages and images as well.
- All old URLs are missing the "Referring page" or "Sitemap" in the "Inspection URL" report. That clearly indicates that Google visit the old URLs from completely other sources and this may considerably slow down that crawling process.
I saw few people claiming that is a super bad idea and could break the process if you redirect the sitemap too after domain migration (which I did). Is it true?
So for the first three months after migration, all old sitemaps have redirected to the new sitemaps, so basically I had no mapping for the old URLs at that time.
In September, however, I added an old sitemap on the old domain and leave it for one week after I deleted it (I was scared that it would create a conflict between the old and new URLs). After doing that I saw a considerable increase in the crawling rate on the old domain and I also noticed that the sitemap appeared as "Reffering page" for a couple of old URLs when I inspected them. This indicates that Google indeed read the sitemap at that time and crawled a part of the URLs.
I tried to do the trick again on Octomber and again on November but it didn't worked at all. Google has stopped read the sitemap after I deleted it in September.
What do you think?
Atsakyti į: „Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?“
Google Search Central•2022-11-29
I think it has nothing to do with algo changes. I haven't seen any movement in clicks/impressions during the updates so they didn't impact the website at all.
And even if it was like you said, the 95% of pages that are vanished from Google are clearly good enough to be at least in the top 100 to receive impressions. Some pages that are now 1st on Google have poorer quality and more aggressive competition than other pages that haven't seen the light after migration.
Also, if the website would have been affected by any update I don't think Google would crawl the new pages in a few hours.
Atsakyti į: „Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?“
Google Search Central•2022-11-29
Another "good" sign is that new content on the new domain is indexed in 1-2 hours.
But I really don't get why Google prefers to only show 5-10 pages in search (and rank them on the first page) and what stops it from showing the rest. If there would be something wrong I doubt those pages would rank at all, but they do. And this behavior of Googlebot to only visit the category pages on the old domain drives me crazy.
Atsakyti į: „Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?“
Google Search Central•2022-11-29
Atsakyti į: „Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?“
Google Search Central•2022-11-29
The old site received around 1000 clicks per day, the new site receives only 70-80. I'm saying the new site has the exact traffic it had Day1 after domain migration. It feels like the traffic and ranking keywords are capped to a static value. The new site is ranking with only a couple of keywords (those keywords haven't changed their position not once, they are literally taking the first position) while the rest 500 keywords + are vanished, don't receive a single impression. How could Google rank those pages so well on the new domain and vanish the rest?
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Atsakyti į: „Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?“
Google Search Central•2022-11-29
Thanks for your input.
The website has the exact traffic and number of "ranking pages" as it was right after changing domain so I don't think it was affected by any algorithm update. I can give you the domain and server logs (in private) if you are willing to take a look at it.
Atsakyti į: „No coverage stats for the old sitemap“
Google Search Central•2022-11-29
Atsakyti į: „Google keep accessing old redirects“
Google Search Central•2022-11-19
Atsakyti į: „Strange server logs after domain migration.“
Google Search Central•2022-11-16
What do you think about the fact that Google keep crawling the category pages but not the inner pages on the old domain. Given that some URLs haven't been crawled for more than a month (as per the inspection tool) shouldn't Google check the redirects again?
Atsakyti į: „August 2022 Helpful content update feedback“
Google Search Central•2022-09-23
Those sites are ruining Google searches.
Atsakyti į: „Question regarding domain migration“
Google Search Central•2022-08-18
The whole website has been redirected 1:1, every new URLs matching the old ones.
However, I have noticed for some time that in GSC, we have quite a few pages "not indexed" because they are pages with redirects. This is because:
- For some pages, Google finds both versions of the URL with "/" and without it, and since the version with the trailing slash redirects to the version without (which is also the version in the sitemap), Google sees it with a redirect. However, the versions without the trailing slash are indexed and good, that's why I thought I shouldn't worry about it. The strange thing is how Google found those versions of the URL ending with trailing slash. We literally have no internal links pointing to them. We also tried to inspect the URLs to see the referring pages, but we couldn't find any URL ending with "/" on those pages.
- Also, since we have migrated the domain, Google sees all the redirects we did on the old domain
and shows them in Coverage as excluded due to "Page with redirect." I think this is normal since those URLs have been actually redirected. The actual and final versions of the URLs are indexed. But why does Google prefer to show those old URLs that have been previously redirected on the old domain quite a long time ago and display them as excluded pages in GSC?
Atsakyti į: „Question regarding domain migration“
Google Search Central•2022-08-15
6 months sounds insanely long for a domain migration. I hope that is not the case as we can barely "survive" that long without generating revenue.
Any insights from other webmasters that actually did a domain migration? What was your experience?
Atsakyti į: „Question regarding domain migration“
Google Search Central•2022-08-12
I mean, out of 300 pages, 8 pages are first on Google and the rest out of 100. How Google can rank only 3% of my pages, and all those 3% be 1st while the rest can't be found anywhere on search.
And I'm sorry to hear your rankings haven't been recovered. This is really worrying.