website with no information on google search

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Hi folks!

My website shows as “no information is available for this page” on google search interface. How do I ensure google can read my site? I’ve not purposefully blocked anything.

My website is polkadotmarket.ca

I’ve created a robot.txt but still no showing the info.

we use Shopify as our ecommerce platform

{%- comment -%}

Caution! Please read https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/editing-robots-txt before proceeding to make changes to this file.

{% endcomment %}
{% for group in robots.default_groups %}
{{- group.user_agent -}}

{% for rule in group.rules %}
{{- rule -}}
{% endfor %}

{%- if group.sitemap != blank -%}
{{ group.sitemap }}
{%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

Thanks in advice.

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Submit to Google Search Console to see how it’s going. Usually, the default robots.txt is good enough. Unless you want to hide some pages, there is no need to change robots.txt

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I submitted the Google Search Console and this is the message:

URL inspection

TEST THE PUBLISHED URL

info

The URL is not on Google
This page is not in the index due to the details below, and not an error.

Detection

sitemaps N/A

reference page

No pages were detected

The URL may be known from other sources not currently reported

Tracking

Last Track N/A

tracked as N/A

Is tracking allowed? N/A

page search N/A

Is indexing allowed?
info N/A

Indexing

User-declared canonical URL N/A

Canonical URL selected by Google N/A

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If google can index your site URLs after a while, then it’s great. Otherwise, you can only use the default robots.txt and try again.

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Hi @polkadot ,

Have you submited the sitemap? When did you publish the requested page? It will definitely take some time before Google gets to your page to index it.

I’ve put together tips how to get your pages index in one of my blog posts, if interested here is a link:

https://www.nikikozak.me/shopify-qa/2021-09-29-shopify-pages-not-indexed/

If you need help with the GSC, feel free to contact me.

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Hi Niki,

Yes I had submitted the sitemap. I published the page months ago and wasn’t understand why it didn’t get any traffic.

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Hi @polkadot ,

it’s weird if you have submitted the sitemap months ago. How many products and pages do your site has?

Could you share a screenshot of the GCS? It would be better than only having the messages. If you don’t want to share it in the thread, feel free to write to me a PM.

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Hi Niki_K

Our site has more than 200 products and 20 pages. And yes it still the same message, google does not read the pages.

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Hi @polkadot ,

I’ve just checked your website and the sitemap.

Your sitemap consist of 4 “sub” sitemaps. According to the screenshot you sent, the first one couldn’t be fetched.

If I check your main sitemap – polkadotmarket.ca/sitemap.xml, I can see following (see the screenshot). The first sub sitemap (which has the status couldn’t be fetched) has a parameter, which isn’t in the Google Search Console. Try uploading the sitemap once more with the parameter – https://polkadotmarket.ca/sitemap_products_1.xml?from=5894279004340&to=6913282015412

Without the parameter, it’s not working (the sitemap is empty). With the parameter, it’s working. There might be also a problem in the GSC with the parameters because Google might strip the parameter (the part of the URL after the question mark – ?from=589427xxxxxxxxxxxx

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The rest of the sub sitemaps – they have the status processed. When it’s finished, the status should turn to success. If you click the sitemap name in GSC, what kind of message do you see there? Is it this one?

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Hi Niki_K

No, that is not the message that I got.

For the https://polkadotmarket.ca/sitemap_products_1.xml?from=5894279004340&to=6913282015412

Message is: The sitemap has been processed.

for: https://polkadotmarket.ca/sitemap.xml

Message: The sitemap index has been processed.

for: https://polkadotmarket.ca/sitemap_blogs_1.xml and a couple of other ones.

message: The sitemap has been processed.

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Hi @polkadot ,

it will take some time - it’s in the process. Meanwhile, you can check some of your pages in the URL inspection, what the status is.

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Hi Niki_K

I see that it still in process. thanks for your help.

best regards.