I’m sure there are still many pages that have been deleted three weeks later, including business landing pages that I had counted on to drive traffic. More on that later.
At this point I'm extremely frustrated because there are only about 150 pages left to be reindexed and no matter how many times I check and request a new index in search console it won't work.
These pages are perfectly capable of being indexed as reported by SC URL Check, but they are not being crawled. As a result, nearly a month later, we are still 9% below our baseline.
One particular page just refused to reindex. It was a portugal mobile database high commercial value product page that I was counting on for conversions.
When I try to force a reindex, I try:
URL checking and request indexing 15 times per month.
Update the publication date and then request indexing.
Update the content and publication date, then request indexing.
Resubmit your sitemap to SC.
Nothing works. This page will not reindex. Same thing happens with 100s of other URLs with less commercial influence.
Note: This page will not be re-indexed until October 1st, a full two months after it was de-indexed.