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Google confirmed it had some issues indexing and/or serving new content in Google Search. It started around 1:30 p.m. ET today. {Update: this is now resolved, see Postscript below.)
Google statement. “I’ve heard some sporadic reports, and we’re checking on these,” said Google’s Search Liaison Danny Sullivan.
Forty minutes after publishing this article, Google confirmed having an issue with indexing new content. Google wrote:
Reports. Edward Hyatt, the Director of Newsroom SEO at the Wall Street Journal, wrote, “Indexing of new content in Search looks like it dropped around 2-3pm.”
We will continue to monitor the potential issues and keep you posted in this story if there are any confirmed issues with Google Search index and serving.
I am seeing content being indexed and served by Google Search in the past hour or so, but Hyatt added, “t’s still crawling existing content but not new URLS unfortunately..”
A site command for content within the past hour does show this:
However, as I continue to monitor this query, it does seem like newer content is coming in and out of these search results. I am also monitoring other news sites that continuously publish content and seeing similar issues. So it does appear that there are some issues with Google serving new content.
Why we care. If you have published new content since 2 p.m. ET you may be seeing less traffic from Google Search. It is unclear how widespread the issues are and how much this is impacting publishers.
Postscript. There does seem to be issues with Google Search surfacing new content but it does not seem to be indexing-related but rather serving-related. Here is a new piece of content that shows as being indexed by Google Search Console:
But it is not currently being served by Google Search:
But Google has said this is a confirmed indexing issue with new content.
Now fixed. This is now resolved:
On October 5, 2023 we encountered an issue that slowed down indexing of some content from 10:30am to 4:20pm PDT. We believe this issue is now resolved. https://t.co/G13rcWoL2s https://t.co/HdmP8kWIS8
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