I am seeing numerous reports from publishers that Google is having issues indexing Google News publishers and other sites. Most sites don't seem to be having an issue but there are reports of many publishers having issues. Google said they are going to investigate the issue.
Google's John Mueller responded to some of the complaints that he has sent these reports up to the team to look into:
I've pinged some folks to check that out -- I saw a few other comments about that too. Thanks!
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) July 25, 2019
Hi Matthias - thanks for the ping! That does look weird, we're looking into what's happening here. Sorry about the delay.
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) July 25, 2019
This site and most sites I know of are not having issues but the issues seem to be there. Here are some examples:
A site command for [site:mixed.de] returns no results for the past week.
There are numerous complaints in the Google News Help Forums as well. It has been going on for over a week now.
It is also possibly not just news publishers:
Weird bug in Search Console where all my "Submitted and Indexed" valid pages suddenly became "Indexed, not submitted in sitemap" over night although GSC can see my sitemaps just fine under the Sitemaps report. Anyone else seeing this? @johnmu Any ideas please?
— Roxana Stingu (@RoxanaStingu) July 23, 2019
Update, might just be the news publisher side as the example above in the tweet is resolved?
Thanks! The team checked something after my escalation, and they said it should work now. Let me know how it goes (or feel free to DM if you prefer).
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) July 25, 2019
Again, this is not as big of an issue from back in November with Google News publishers or the Google indexing issues from May.
Are you having issues?
Forum discussion at Google News.
