Is my website hit with a site-wide penalty by Google? I publish an article it gets picked up by Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, duckduckgo, but not Google

Understanding Your Website’s Search Visibility: Diagnosing Google Indexing Challenges

If you’re experiencing a significant disparity in your website’s traffic sources—seeing robust visits from Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo but very limited traffic from Google—it can be perplexing. This situation often prompts site owners to wonder whether their site has been penalized or if other indexing issues are at play.

Assessing Your Google Presence

From your description, when you publish new content, it appears that:

• The links are crawled by Google Search Console, but not indexed.
• The content is quickly indexed on other search engines like Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo.
• You’ve noticed minimal daily traffic from Google over several years, averaging around 10-25 visits.

This pattern suggests that Google is aware of your content but is not displaying it prominently or, in some cases, not at all in search results.

Possible Causes for Limited Google Traffic

1. Indexing versus Ranking
   The fact that your URLs are crawled but not indexed indicates a potential quality or relevance issue. Google may deem the content unworthy of ranking highly or displaying in search results.

2. Site-Wide Penalties or Manual Actions
   Concerns about a site-wide penalty are common among webmasters. Google can impose manual actions if a website violates guidelines, which can result in reduced visibility.

To determine if your site has any manual penalties, thoroughly review your Google Search Console messages and the “Manual Actions” report. If there are no penalties listed, the issue may lie elsewhere.

1. Content Quality and Compliance
   Google’s algorithm prioritizes high-quality, original, and user-focused content. Ensure your content adheres to Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, avoiding spammy or thin content that might lead to lower rankings or exclusion.

2. Technical SEO Issues

3. Proper use of robots.txt or noindex tags could prevent pages from being indexed.
4. Site structure, URL parameters, or canonicalization issues may impact indexing.

5. Slow site speed or mobile usability problems can also influence ranking.

6. Indexing Priorities
   Google might prioritize your existing high-value content, causing newer or less authoritative pages to be less visible. Over time, consistent quality signals may improve visibility.

Steps to Diagnose and Improve Your Google Indexing Issues

• Use Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool
  Check specific pages for indexing status