Website not showing up in (google) search

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Hi,

I’ve created several websites using Kirby and implemented the ‘Kirby Meta Knight’ plugin for basic SEO, which usually ensures good visibility in search results. However, a recent personal website I developed isn’t appearing in Google search results within the first 10 pages, not even searching explicitly for the domain name, despite the unique name of the individual it’s for. This is unusual for me, as all my previous sites have ranked well following the same process. I am also getting good score for the SEO when running a performance checker tool.

Does anyone have insights on why this might be happening or where I should start investigating?

Thanks in advance!

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Have you submitted your site’s sitemap to Google for crawling? You’ll need to add it to Google Search Console.

3

google search console might give you clues wether or not something is not being indexed because of problems or being excluded.

other than that you can see what pages are already in the search by using:

site:domain.ext

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Kirby Meta Knight has a breaking bug that prevents Google from indexing the page, you can read more about it in the GitHub issues.

You should use an alternative plugin instead.

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another common pitfall might be that my robots.txt plugin will block indexing when the global debug mode is enabled.