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Page or all pages on the site I primarily use Rank Tracker (with) for my ranking checking needs, and Rank . Allowing a found column, it immediately revealed something to me: the other pages were still ranking, just the homepage wasn't. Additionally, if a certain ranking drops a few pages (but is still within the previous page results), it will be changed to a page that ranks differently. In my client's case, it was services, testimonials, and contact information. Stuff page. This suggests to me that it's only the home page that's affected but I can still find a way to determine if it's still there using an operator.
My next step in the index is to use the operator on the domain (see here) to see moible number data if the home page is still in the index. It's not but every other page on the site is. Well at least it's not site-wide! Although I have a feeling this will be the case based on what I've said, it's still important to check in case the homepage is still ranking but has devalued for some reason. Now that I'm sure that the home page has disappeared from view, it's time to start investigating the real cause of the accidental checking through tags. In my experience, this is usually the one to blame when this happens, considering that in most systems nowadays, the option to not index the page is usually It's a tick box that's easy to do.

In fact, one time I looked into this issue for someone, this is why I just told them to uncheck the box. To check, bring up the source code of the page and look for this line (or something similar): (If it's easier or faster, press and search.) If you find this code in the source code, it's most likely what's causing the problem . If it's not there, go to the next step to check for files that were accidentally included in the website. It seems to be a bit of a common myth that the page can't be indexed. It actually tells search engines not to crawl the page, so only if the page never actually appears in the This will only be the case if it is in Google's index if it.
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