Indexing of Discovery Articles Taking Longer than Normal

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Has anyone noticed this? Is 11 days excessive? It used to happen faster.

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      Justice Ndlovuposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      It usually takes my articles 3-4 days to get indexed. The longest I have waited was a week.
      
      Maybe it's just a technical problem on HP side.

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   ReViewMeMediaposted 2 years ago

   My articles took over a month so I had to wait a long time before I shared a bunch of them.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Meanwhile a guide I wrote a few days ago has been shifted to Dengarden and was indexed by Google straight away.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   But do we care about Discover? I more or less ignore anything that falls into that cesspit. Okay, I will maybe make a couple of attempts to get it out, but that's it.
   
   As the average Discover article gets around 3 views per month; 11 days equals losing just a single view. It's not worth the worry.
   
   Maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but you get my general thrust?

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      eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Maybe HP doesn't submit articles to Google for indexing when they're pending a move?

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Matt says that once an article is featured, it's indexed. The Google Search forum say that if there are pages that are too similar elsewhere, the page might not be indexed. so I'm none the wiser. Meanwhile the URL of the guide that I published on the 23rd July still doesn't show up, searching for the title doesn't throw it up in searches and it hasn't been moved to Owlcation. However the URL appears on Bing.

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      Justice Ndlovuposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      It's pretty normal for articles to be indexed on Bing almost immediately. That's where I'm getting most of my organic traffic from. I'm guessing it takes much longer with Google.

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         It seems to vary. An article that was moved to Dengarden appeared on Google the next day. Maybe they don't crawl/index some websites as frequently.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   URL still not appearing in SERPS, yet this post has has been indexed.

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      Beth Eaglescliffeposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Edit: I was looking at the wrong article.

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         This is the article about icebergs that's not showing up. If it was moved to Owlcation, it might have a better chance of appearing in the SERPS. I can understand an article not turning up high in the SERPS if there's competition, but what's unusual is that the URL isn't even listed when searched for.
         
         https://discover.hubpages.com/education … d-How-Much
         
         I emailed the team to see whether there was a glitch. The fridge article was moved to Dengarden within a day or two. It's odd that it should take a month for a decision about this one.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   It has just been basic edited and shifted to Owlcation.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      You're better off with it there.
      
      I was thinking earlier, when looking at the work of a dodgy writer who had half a dozen spun articles in Discover, that in some ways, delays in indexing new articles might actually be an advantage for those who have existing articles in Discover. Faster indexing means more crap (by which I mean the spun, spam, over-promotional and bad English) being found by Google!

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Google has found the URL now too. Startpage.com has put it in 2nd place for "why is most of an iceberg under water", but maybe ranking drops after initial promotion.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Yeah, they can sometimes initially surge and then they settle down into a lower spot, unless it's something virtually unique with very few rivals, which is rare nowadays.
      
      I think Google sometimes likes to give new articles some traffic to see how readers react and gain some stats.
      
      And then Google is supposed to be going nuclear very soon, anyway, with its radical, new update, so everything might be up in the air!

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