I recently launched a Shopify store and I'm trying to get it indexed by Google. Before setting up Shopify, my custom domain was pointed to my Etsy store. After switching to Shopify, I submitted my sitemap.xml to Google Search Console to kick off indexing. A few days later, I checked back and saw an error saying the sitemap couldn’t be indexed because of a redirect. I assumed that was because the domain had previously redirected to Etsy. So I waited a few more days, re-submitted the sitemap, and checked again—same issue. The status said validation started on June 8, and the last update was June 9, but there’s been no progress since. To troubleshoot, I opened my sitemap.xml and added the individual collection pages from it directly into Google Search Console (rather than relying solely on the main sitemap). After doing this, Google showed that it found multiple pages in those collections. I thought that meant it was finally working. But even now, none of my pages are showing as indexed, even though the sitemap was processed successfully. I don’t want to manually submit every single product or page—but maybe that’s what I have to do? I also tried removing the property from my Google Search Console account and adding it again, thinking that might reset things. But when I re-added the property, everything came back in the same state—so that didn’t help either. It seems there’s no way to completely wipe and reset a property. Any advice on how to get Google to actually crawl and index my Shopify site would be hugely appreciated. I just want to get this store properly listed in search. submitted by /u/kohleebree3d [link] [comments]
