Troubleshoot Blog Post Google Indexing

[symbioquine]

It seems like our first blog post isn't in the Google index: https://farmos.org/blog/2022/getting-started

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%253Ahttps%253A%252F%252Ffarmos.org%252Fblog%252F2022%252Fgetting-started

I'm going to try and figure out what's going on, just creating this issue to track my investigation...

[symbioquine]

Interestingly, when I put in the https URL to the post it returns "URL not in Property";

It does work with the http url - though the page isn't indexed. Not sure if the http vs https thing is actually the culprit here or whether that's just a red herring...

[jgaehring]

It's working for me now. Maybe just a time delay? Dunno if there would be ways to accelerate that for future posts.

[symbioquine]

I'm not sure if it is a result of the way access to the farmOS.org search console was shared with me, but I only see the "URL-prefix property" for the "farmos.org" domain - not the "Domain property". See the difference in how "farmos.org" and "symbioquine.net" show for me in the properties dropdown of the Google search console;

Since URL-prefix properties include the protocol, that helps explain why I couldn't see the indexing status of the https version of the getting started blog post url;

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10432366

It's working for me now. Maybe just a time delay? Dunno if there would be ways to accelerate that for future posts.

Very cool! Let's close this for now until we have another (broken-ish) example to work with...