Independent Wiki Network Reports New Domains Stuck Out Of Google Indexing
The timing ties the indexing failures to Google's core update aimed at mass-generated and low-reliability content, and Weird Gloop's own data shows the penalty falling on new domains regardless of whether the content is copied or original, which threatens the migration route away from Fandom.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
Weird Gloop, a group that hosts wikis for editors leaving Fandom, says new domains it launched stopped appearing in Google search results after a Search core update. The problem has been seen on dozens of its sites, including gta.wiki, hytalewiki.org and hollowknight.wiki, and it happens whether content was copied from Fandom or written from scratch. Some pages went nearly nine months without being indexed.
Weird Gloop hosts wikis for editors who leave Fandom, and it says several of its newest domains were never picked up by Google Search. One host working correctly was overwatch.weirdgloop.org, launched as a subdomain of an existing domain: it was indexed within seven days. Weird Gloop says it found no evidence the problem existed before the core update, and that timing, not domain age, appears to decide who gets indexed. It is asking wiki operators and SEO professionals for their own data.
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