How to get DropInBlog posts indexed and discoverable on Google Search Console?

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About a year ago we migrated from the native Shopify blog to an app, DropInBlog.

Google Search Console is not indexing or Discovering any of our blog posts on there (except one random one). If I do a URL Inspection for each individual blog post, GSC says each page is indexed and searchable. But none of the pages are included in my sitemap either under pages or blog posts.

Can anyone advise on getting these blog posts mapped, indexed, and Discoverable (through Google Discover)?

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Hey Jason!

Jesse here, I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of DropInBlog :slightly_smiling_face:

I took a peak at your site and as our support team shared with you things are indexing just fine. As you can see almost 400 blog posts are indexed by google here: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.cleaneatzkitchen.com%2Fa%2Fblog%2F

Also as mentioned we have a separate sitemap for the blog that you can submit to submit to search console for faster indexing of new posts. Yours is located here: https://www.cleaneatzkitchen.com/a/blog/sitemap.xml
But for future reference you can always find that link on the settings page in the User Panel:

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Looking over at ahrefs it seems you have a ton of stuff that is not only indexing, but ranking quite well:

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So it appears google likes yours site very much and likes the content you are writing. But I think your next move is to work on some offsite SEO, namely backlinks.

If you look at the rice article (4th row on the table above) and you’re ranked 12th (up from 18th). The top 10 for that serp is some pretty heavy hitters. Note your Domain Rank (DR) is 38 and as you can see that’s well below 8/10 of the people on page one.

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So while we can say google likes the content you’re making, in the end you need to work on your authority (via backlinks) to get yourself onto page one for some of these tougher terms. If you also look in the right col of the table there is some serious traffic coming into page one on this term, so you are on the cusp of some great results in a very competitive niche. :rocket: :blush: :flexed_biceps:

Thanks for using DropInBlog and be sure to reach out to support or reply here if you have more questions.
-Jesse

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Great feedback, thank you. Your CS also helped straighten out my misunderstanding.