Only home page is index by Google

  • dkdivedude

    (@dkdivedude)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    I started adding pages to my site about two weeks ago, but still nothing is showing in Google.

    Only if I type “site:dkdivedude.com” in Google, will it show the homepage.

    So I am just wondering why none of my pages, except the homepage are shown.

    I have not checked “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” in settings.

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  • Thread Starter dkdivedude

    (@dkdivedude)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Ok I may just have answered by own question, as I now remember I did not actually create any “pages” but instead “categories”.

    Well I do have one page, an “About” page. The link shows on my homepage, but it is not indexed by Google.

    Also is there a way to create pages, that each will only show a particular category?

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by dkdivedude.
    Thread Starter dkdivedude

    (@dkdivedude)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Found the following from another post, about adding pages that contains categories;

    By default WordPress has category support for posts (not for pages). If you want support for categories on pages you have to look for another plugin that support it or add this code to your functions.php file in your theme or child-theme

    function support_category_for_pages() {  
    // Add category support to pages
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'page');  
}
add_action( 'init', 'support_category_for_pages' );
    James Lee

    (@jameslhc)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Google takes its own sweet time to index pages and not all pages may be listed in Google immediately.

    There’s nothing much you can do but you can make Google’s job easier by:-

    • Having a proper sitemap for your website.
    • Making sure your robots.txt file is not blocking Google’s crawlers.
    • Making sure your server is up all the time as search engine crawlers may not crawling your site if they keep facing issues connecting to the site.

    One helpful tool that you can use is Google Search Console:-
    https://search.google.com/search-console/about

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