I disabled my Shopify password a couple of weeks ago but my site is still showing as “Opening Soon” in search when you enter “Treasure Knot” into search. When you click on it, the site is live though. If you enter www.treasureknot.com, it shows correctly in search. I have requested indexing etc etc several times. URL inspection says my URL is not on Google but it is connected to Analytics. Live test says my site is “available” on Google. I re-submitted my sitemap as well. I have been trying to get this sorted for over a week now with nobody able to help me. My URL is https://www.treasureknot.com. Can someone PLEASE help. I am getting desperate.
Thanks for replying. The “Opening Soon” has finally disappeared now but the description is wrong. I have re-submitted my sitemap & asked to re-index several times now. Thank you for your help.
It could take a few weeks for it to implement, I am pretty sure it lets you know this. The google bot, is that a bot. It cant be asked to do it now. Although since you submitted a request it will eventually make its way on the list.
As per the google website I shared with you
General guidelines
Crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Be patient and monitor progress using either the Index Status report or the URL Inspection tool.
Just want to add, SEO takes time. If you choose the SEO route for your website, expect to be in for the long haul.
If the page is already updated, then you can just request a crawl of a single URL in Google Search Console. But looks like this is sorted already.
Usually takes a couple hours in my experience to send Googlebot your way & update the index. Recrawling the sitemap is a bit hit & miss, especially if the pages are already indexed it can often fallback to Googlebots allocated crawl frequency so yeah could take a few days.
I’ll copy in what I meant to link before. From here:
TLDR; make them shorter.> > Yeah @Meg_Dawson is right, it’s pretty normal to have meta descriptions and titles rewritten by Google. It happens ~60% of the time.> > Also, I wouldn’t recommend relying on the Shopify character length fields for a couple reasons:> > 1. They are not smart enough to factor in theme prepends and appends to the title or meta field. So when a title like “Yellow Cars” becomes “Yellow Cars - The Car Shop” due to the way the liquid in the theme is setup. Then the string " - The Car Shop" is not counted in the title length field character count in that screenshot you attached.> 1. Shopify field lengths are based on char counts, when Google seems to use something closer to a rendered pixel length. So even if Shopify character counts (1) were accurate, they would still have a margin of error before going overlength and being truncated at best and rewritten at worst.> > These are better tools (there are lots) to estimate lengths:> > - https://totheweb.com/learning_center/tool-test-google-title-meta-description-lengths/> - https://metatags.io/> > Even if you get your lengths right, you can’t force Google to use your meta-description or title tag. Think of setting metas + titles as suggestions to Google, not instructions.> > If you make better suggestions (accurately reflect on-page content, within field length limits) then from experience, it tends to be more likely that Google will use your copy, and not “decide” to algorithmically replace with it’s own generated snippet.