Search Engine Update: Google Resolved Indexing Issues
Google has fixed indexing issues impacting some websites as of December 10, 2024, at 8:16 AM PST.
In Latest search engine ranking news, Google announced this on its Search Status Dashboard stating, “We fixed the issue with indexing to match the actual impact. There will be no further updates”.
Website owners can have relief, knowing that their website visibility is no more affected. Moreover, Google has also updated the timing to reflect the actual impact on the affected websites.
Let’s check out the update timeline of Google Indexing issues
At 3.38PM PST, Google’s team issued their first official statement, “Google is investigating reports about delayed indexing in Google Search that’s impacting a small number of websites”
Google said it offers an update within 12 hours of the initial report.
Furthermore, most of the users have faced indexing issues and highlighted on reddit and social platforms. A user said in a post, “It happened again, Google has officially confirmed that it is experiencing indexing issues, and many websites are feeling the impact, everything has been working so smoothly lately!”
You can refer the below screenshot.
Image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1hb4i11/google_has_confirmed_that_it_is_experiencing/?rdt=33784
Also, a user has mentioned a similar error in Cloudflare community stating that they cannot index on google.
Image source: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/google-indexing-page-fetch-error-failed-redirect-error/745396
Impact On Publishers
As this Google indexing issues affected small websites, it might have impact on news organizations that depends on timely content indexation, eCommerce sites updating product listing, and the businesses publishing time-sensitive content.
