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Google indexing problems #204

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mdoering opened this issue Sep 14, 2023 · 0 comments

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mdoering commented Sep 14, 2023

The COL portal on https://www.catalogueoflife.org is badly indexed by Google.
Currently the google search index only holds 21k pages!

Google has dropped over half a million indexed pages in July for some reason.

For species of these indexed pages I do get COL in the search results, but that might be different for others?
e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=Argostemma+bachmaense

Other indexed names: Pristigenys serrula, Annelida, Fabaceae, Prosopocoilus flavomaculatus

One of the most common problems Google reports why it hasnt indexed a page is a Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)

The biggest issue there is are not found sitemaps!
E.g. google tries to read this: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/sitemap-bt.txt
Why it does so is unclear, the main robots file does not list it:
https://www.catalogueoflife.org/robots.txt

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