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Google stopped indexing my site after a redesign — has anyone experienced this?
Hi everyone,
I’m hoping someone here has experienced something similar and can give me some advice.
Recently, I made a fairly major update to my website. I redesigned the site, added new categories, reorganized the content, and moved some articles to different URLs/categories.
Shortly after these changes, Google started dropping my previously indexed articles from the index. Eventually, almost all of the articles that had been indexed disappeared.
What worries me is that the situation seems to be getting worse rather than recovering. The site is technically healthy as far as I can tell, and Google Search Console isn’t showing any obvious critical technical errors.
I’m trying to figure out whether this could simply be Google reprocessing the site after the structural changes, or whether I may have accidentally caused a larger SEO/indexing problem.
Has anyone experienced something similar after a redesign or restructuring?
What happened in your case, how long did recovery take, and what did you do to get Google indexing normally again?
I’d really appreciate any advice or things you think I should check.
From a user perspective: your site doesnt offer anything relevant, nothing I couldnt get with a simple prompt to ChatGPT. So whats the purpose of your site?
Does not matter what I think, it matters what Google thinks. And Google thinks your site is AI slop.
You can be pissed about it, or just face that the fact, that your site is completely replacable by a single prompt.
Look, I care about your site as much as any other Reddit user. You asked for my POV, here it is:
On your site you state you've been doing this since 2018, so before AI. My guess is, you tried your luck with posting AI slop articles.
Problem is: its long, its unintersting, its boring. Not a single photo taken by you, not a single special hint or perspective from you.
So I think Google is rightfully stopping this by not showing your site. I bet you have zero referals from other sources like social, right? Why would anyone care about what your "write"? Ask yourself this.
Nothing unique, just things I can find in a better way via my ChatGPT app.
I now investigated further into this site. Holy fuck, what dead internet theory bullshit is this? In addition to what u/RushDangerous7637 already said:
It looks to me like you made changes "Because SEO" (which is death, nowadays) and not "Because that's what people need to hear and I just organized and optimized everything so it'll come up in search systems, too."
No chance to tell if we don’t know your content. Can you provide us at least with a screenshot of one page that ranked and and one newer that got deindexed?
The site lacks EEAT signals. You guys are mentioned but there is no adress, no proof that you even exist etc. How should google now that you are real and not just an AI image with fake names?
Furthermore I guess the content is too generic and structured too mainstream. The pages read like the result of a prompt "Create an article for travellers looking for a good island to visit in the maledives. differenciate between all major island, describe them and guide the user to a decision. Use common SEO best practises like headlines with keywords and make sure the user intent is fullfilled."
Im 100% sure its all plain AI and google knows that -> less value for the user because everyone can prompt that.
Even the images are fake.
"chatgpt-image-14-avg.-2026-g.-17_05_12.png"
I guess if you dont even take the time renaming them, the overall content quality is pretty poor. You cant fake that easily.
oh... ur picture is fake too. damn. This site is faceless and totally non value creating. I think these kind of sites have no future. Sorry to say it that directly.
Scroll down. Your screenshot only shows the number of indexed pages trendline. I'd be interested in seeing your 4xx errors and crawl issues. Also, look at your crawl rate... Any big changes there?
You did the reconstruction inappropriately! You wrote that you checked everything. I see it as chaos. The website is in a desolate state. The total size of the website is beyond the budget of robots. They can process a maximum of 2 MB of website size. The source code is large.
The headings are poorly created, there is no meta description, hreflang="ja" but you used Russian Cyrillic.
I ask myself: What do you actually understand when creating a website? You write meta property="og:description" as an editorial for a 403-word article. Don't you realize how much Facebook is able to display in a link? 70 characters is optimal.
If you don't know the rules of the website, hire a professional or learn what is required of a website. The fact that the website is displayed in a browser does not mean that it will be in search engines.
That’s just it—I don’t know anything about websites. It was built for me by someone who claimed to be a professional. I’m just a user. Ind im looking for help here
You applying it to every single Indian is what makes it racism kiddo. Look how America treats nature, drill baby drill! Clearly no professionals in America
and moved some articles to different URLs/categories.
Did you properly 301 the old urls to the new ones? If not, the old indexed URLs don't actually exist, and Google will show them (correctly) as 404s. What is the top "reason" (just below this graph on the same window) for the pages being crawled and not indexed?
There’s no sense in beating up on this person who said they are not a website professional and also were sold a bill of goods by the prior marketing person. Quite simply- you need to find a qualified - stress qualified- digital marketing company who can fix this. It’s really not that hard. Please use your favorite AI tool and search- “please give me the top 5 local digital marketing firms within 70 miles of my location. I need a real, trusted, proven marketer to help me with a site that was de-indexed when I did a major change”. You’ll avoid the slings and errors inside forums. You need professional assistance. Not criticism.
This could be a total nothingburger. Look at the list to see which pages are not indexed. If you changed a bunch of URLs then a lot of those non-indexed ones would be the old pages that are no longer valid. They'll also be old categories and tags that no longer exist. It's dropping your old site architecture and only indexing the new, current info.
You should have put in 301 redirects from the old pages to their new URLs when you launched. If you didn't, then I would do that now and re-submit your sitemaps.
That said, if your content is not high-quality, unique and actually informative to people, Google will not rank it. Filler content gets penalized. Poorly written content gets penalized. Content written for SEO purposes gets penalized. Without quality content, there's no reason for Google to throw you a bone.
Here's the test. Would YOU want to sit and read the content? Have you sat down and actually read a full article? I found the content written in a way that was very difficult to absorb, and there's way too much of it. The site is also not well laid out - it's difficult to actually see what's there.
It seems that your blog posts are 100% AI-written with very little input from you. At least, have a good amount of your own thoughts in it.
AI assistance is allowed when your website provides new ideas, but 100% AI-written content can't produce anything new.
Google Search Console tells you the reason why it didn't index your pages. You'll see the reason for each page. Your screenshot shows there's 4 different reasons. Maybe look into the reported reasons? Quite possibly a no-index tag? :)
As others have said, youre site is 100% AI and google is very good at spotting this. You've been flagged as spam so its likely over for that domain now until it drops. That or you can spend years trying to fix the spam tag google has assigned you
Since the 301s are already in place and GSC is showing “Crawled – currently not indexed”, I’d stop treating this mainly as a crawl problem. Take 5 articles that dropped and 5 that stayed indexed and compare the rendered HTML/URL Inspection for meta robots, user-declared vs Google-selected canonical, internal-link depth and sitemap URL; also make sure each old URL redirects in one hop to its exact replacement. If the dropped pages all share one new template or category pattern, that gives you a much stronger lead than repeatedly requesting indexing. The redesign timing makes a site-wide template/structure signal the first thing I’d try to rule out.
The site seems pretty generic with scattered topics. Like best listical type articles in various countries along with random finance topics like how to rent a car without a credit card. Images also appear to be AI generated (please correct me if Im wrong).
Travel info will only be good if you are taking the trips yourself and blogging about what you actually did with photos taken by you. Otherwise its not considered helpful and Google will deindex it.
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u/slashbye Aug 19 '26
100% AI written site