Why did google stop indexing only my Blog pages?

Hey guys, a local plumber here has a site which was ranking very well for the past 5 years until last year when his Stats started slowly dropping each month. We were baffled by this as we were consistently still doing one monthly blog and monthly backlinking without missing not even month.

I only recently noticed that only his blog pages had issues all this time not being indexed so my fault in not seeing this sooner. GSC shows 59 blog pages not indexed so I reached out to a WP Coder who works on getting those pages indexed. Here's what he says when I asked 'why the pages were not being indexed any more'?

"Issue is crawling. And also a crawl budget. Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot crawls and indexes on a website within a given timeframe.
So if your number of pages exceeds your site’s crawl budget, you’re going to have pages on your site that aren’t indexed. and they won't get indexed until the crawl budget is reset."

So I then asked what needs to be done to 'Reset the crawl budget' and also if that will solve the problem so no more indexing issues? His response:

"Nothing.. we can't do anything to it..They pile up over time, we can try to index them. Most of These urls have not been crawled properly so i will re-crawl them which will result in Indexing. My work only affect current pages. So there won't be any fix for future post or pages.
But if you have a lot of urls already indexed those will help new one get indexed and also crawler won't have to worry about old urls.."

So guys, any word on all of this please, is he 100% accurate in every he has said that nothing can be done to make sure all 'future' pages will be indexed

 

With 59 blog posts and maybe 100 urls total for the entire site, shouldn't be an issue to crawl. I would delete the sitemap and resubmit it, make sure you update old content frequently and use internal linking.

See what state the nonindexed posts are in, either "crawled- currently not indexed" or "discovered- currently not indexed." Because it could be a quality content issue.

 

If you are not receiving notifications of errors or penalties in your Google Search Console, and all the settings are technically correct and correspond to the latest installed Google algorithms, everything will work fine and indexing will return as expected.

 

The WP Coder is correct in saying that nothing can be done to directly affect the crawl budget for future pages. However, ensuring that the current pages are properly indexed can help new pages get indexed more efficiently. It's important to monitor the crawl budget and ensure all pages are being crawled regularly to prevent future indexing issues.

 

Hey guys, thanks for the info and help. Godaddy Tech says it is is crawling budget issues. So I will be removing all duplicate posts.

 

The blog pages aren't indexed likely due to crawl budget issues. Googlebot prioritizes crawling important pages. The WP Coder is partially right. Crawl budget resets naturally, but there's no way to force it. He can resubmit the URLs for crawling, but this won't guarantee future indexing. To improve indexing, focus on high-quality content and optimize site structure for better crawling.

 

Google might have stopped indexing your blog pages due to several possible reasons, such as changes in your site's structure or settings, the presence of noindex tags on those pages, or violations of Google's webmaster guidelines. It could also result from low-quality content, duplicate content issues, or server errors preventing Googlebot from accessing your pages. To diagnose and resolve the issue, review Google Search Console for any crawl errors or warnings, ensure your sitemap is correctly submitted, and check your site's robots.txt file for any directives blocking search engines from indexing your blog pages.