My site http://www.selemedia.org stop been index on google from the day i install newspaper by TAGDIV. Whats he problem and the solution?
Hi TagDiv Support,
My site https://www.selemedia.org stopped being indexed by Google immediately after I installed and activated the Newspaper theme.
Problem:
1. Before installing Newspaper, posts were indexed normally.
2. After activation, new and old posts show as “Crawled – currently not indexed” in Google Search Console.
3. Google reports “No referring sitemaps detected” even though my sitemaps have URLs.
4. Viewing the page source shows Google is not seeing noindex, but indexing still fails.
What I’ve already checked:
– Deactivated RankMath and all other SEO plugins. The issue remains.
– My sitemaps at /wp-sitemap-posts-post-1.xml are working and list 45+ URLs.
– “Discourage search engines” is unchecked in Settings > Reading.
– Using LiteSpeed Cache and Cloudflare, but I’ve purged all cache.
I suspect the Newspaper theme’s built-in SEO settings may be setting a global noindex or blocking Googlebot.
Request:
Can you tell me exactly where in Newspaper > Theme Panel I should check to ensure posts are set to index, follow and not blocked from Google?
Site URL: https://www.selemedia.org
WordPress version: 7.0
Newspaper theme version: 12.7.6
Thanks,
John Sele Philip
Hi,
From what I see only the homepage is indexed https://prnt.sc/20wGw_TYFNur
The theme has no capability to use noindex, or index, or anything else. All the theme does is to display your content.
Perhaps the nature of the issue is more related to how the website looks.
I see broken and missing images everywhere and a very large ad at the top, also the sticky header has no background and it looks a bit bad. For example this is what I’m seeing when arriving on the homepage of your website -> https://prnt.sc/wwnagCba-OA_
Please check the website in incognito mode to see how it looks for a regular visitor. That’s how it looks to Google as well.
Here are some more broken things I’m seeing
https://prnt.sc/UKT_uotknb1n
https://prnt.sc/5SvO1ew1QN_M
https://prnt.sc/Ztmcn9qE6mh8
https://prnt.sc/oMhe6g8lG5uq
These could be a reason for not indexing the website’s content. If the website has visual problems Google may not index it. I suggest looking into these issues, maybe the visual issues are related to the litespeed optimization. And maybe the missing images https://prnt.sc/V56A1nVfHgWj are related to the Jetpack site accelerator, I see you use it.
Once those issues are fixed, the website should look better and it can’t hurt the indexing either. Let me know if you need help with it.
Thank you!
