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Building authority with Google is going to take more than publishing a site with just 30 pages, advises Search Advocate John Mueller.

That’s especially true if the site has stopped publishing new content for a while.

Mueller says this in response to a Reddit thread asking why new articles for an “authoritative” site aren’t being indexed.

The original poster (OP) of the thread says they’ve published 30+ articles on their site, and believes it to be authoritative because of the links it’s receiving.

After a three-month hiatus between publishing new articles, Google isn’t indexing the new content as quickly as it did in the past.

OP asks why some URLs aren’t getting indexed even after a manual submission.

Mueller responds with a rude awakening for OP, saying it’s difficult for Google to see their site as an authority with only a few dozen articles.

Google’s John Mueller On Authoritative Sites

Mueller begins his response by clarifying there’s nothing wrong with Google’s indexing systems at the moment.

Indexing bugs do occur from time to time, but that’s not the problem in this case.

Rather, this is a case of Google being selective about what it’s indexing.

With the site having relatively few articles, coupled with the fact it hasn’t published new content...



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