Google do not index my inserted pages

Hm, if Google is crawling the page, it should see the inserted page. The insert happens on the server and the html is delivered to the client (end user, or google crawler). So the page that has the inserted content should have everything indexed by Google, including the inserted content.

Thanks for your help!

I understand that Google can find the inserted pages in the sitemap, but cannot find any links to the pages anywhere and therefore do not index them.

If one clicks in the vertical navigation on the page I submitted above, there will be no URL-changes.

So, what could solve this, was that the URL (https://www.eb-elektro.no/transmisjon-regionalnett-transformatorstasjoner/ ) was expanded with the inserted page name, for instance https://www.eb-elektro.no/transmisjon-regionalnett-transformatorstasjoner/transformatorer – that the Insert Pages plugin made this as standard or an option.

Grateful for your help!

I continue working with the issue. Here on support, I found a solved issue concerning embedding full URLs (https://www……) So, I have changed all insert page-references to full URLs and have asked Google Search Console to re-index these pages. I will keep you posted on the progress.

Also, Google Search Console wrongly stated that some URLs were not in the sitemap, even though they were. So, I resubmitted the sitemap. Of course, this has nothing to to with the Insert Pages plugin – but might set someone reading this on track.

Cheers, Norchris

Again, I think you’re thinking about this the wrong way. Google will index a page with the inserted content. Google will never see the shortcode because the WordPress server parses it and replaces it with the inserted page before delivering the HTML to the client. So from Google’s perspective, the text it indexes includes all of the content from the inserted page.

For example, you can search for a random phrase from an inserted page on the URL you mentioned above and see that Google sees the content (3rd item in search results for me):

“Vi samarbeider med flere forskjellige produsenter”

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Vi+samarbeider+med+flere+forskjellige+produsenter%22

One other comment, Google will parse your site’s sitemap.xml document to get a list of all content on the site. This may also include the inserted pages by themselves. (If you don’t want this to happen, you can create a private custom post type so the content doesn’t get indexed by itself, only wherever it’s inserted.)

In your case, the plugin Yoast has provided some more metadata on the sitemap.xml, but by default WordPress will create one too.

https://www.eb-elektro.no/sitemap_index.xml

https://www.eb-elektro.no/page-sitemap.xml

Thank you Paul for your help! I am so sorry for thinking the wrong way with this. The way I understand it, now, is that everything should be good with Google. I will look into it later!