On Twitter, a user noticed that Google stopped indexing the web:
Looks to me as if Google stopped indexing (news?) an hour ago. Noticed at first with our pages but seems to be true for everyone (see screenshot) @searchliaison @JohnMu can you confirm this? pic.twitter.com/UlSCI5LVi7
— Valentin Pletzer (@VorticonCmdr) May 22, 2019
Google has confirmed the bug:
We're currently experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results in some cases. We'll update this thread when we can provide more information.
— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) May 22, 2019
If your new pages haven’t been indexed yet, it’s not you – it’s Google.
UPDATE: the bug has been fixed:
The indexing issues from earlier today have been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) May 23, 2019
UPDATE 2: and there is a new bug:
We're looking into a new indexing issue that started escalating 6 hours ago. The issue is unrelated to yesterday's outage and we're working hard to resolve it. We'll update this thread when we can provide more information.
— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) May 24, 2019
How to check the position of your web pages on Google
You can use the ranking monitor in SEOprofiler to check the position of your web pages on Google:
