Blog article is not indexed automatically by Google, no issue on sitemap

[donniesilalahi]

2 mins read

Hi, everyone.

Context:

I'm setting up our store that will sell a beard grooming brand. As part of the pre-launch strategy, we want to write as many articles as possible related to beard grooming so the SEO effect can be felt much earlier when our brand starts growing.

Problem:

We wrote 14 articles so far, and none of it is automatically indexed by Google. This required us to submit each article manually to Google. This is the error page/indexing status when we inspect each of the articles.

This problem causes only our storefront page and a product page that is indexed.

We then try manual indexing, which is working, but:

• It's not scalable, think if we write at least 30 articles per month
• There is a limit of ~10 manual indexing by Google Search Console

What doesn't work:

• Resubmitting 3 children sitemap (products, collection, blogs) under parent sitemap. Submission is successful but brings no effect. 
• Installing some plugin that handles sitemap submission to no result
• Wait for 3 to 5 days for the article to be indexed, to no result.

Question:

1. What's wrong with our sitemap submission or store configuration? How to enable auto-indexing of our blog articles?

Much appreciated for spending your time to help!

Attached below, the sitemap screen, and blog child sitemap which strangely shown all articles are indexed there

[KieranR]

I'd wager that this is not really a technical issue.

Needs a link-aquisition strategy along side the content. Google is notoriously slow to crawl & index domains with no domain/page "authority".