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I recently launched my website, and at first, everything seemed fine—Google indexed my pages, and they were appearing in search results. However, after a few days, my site completely disappeared from Google Search. Now, the only way I can find it is by searching with site:example.com.

I haven’t made any major changes, and there are no manual actions or penalties in Google Search Console. The pages are still indexed, but they no longer show up for regular searches.

Some additional details:

  • My site is relatively new.
  • It was ranking for some keywords before disappearing.
  • Google Search Console shows the pages as indexed.
  • No major technical changes were made before this happened.
  • The site is accessible and not blocked by robots.txt or noindex tags.

I’d really appreciate any insights on why this might be happening and what I can do to fix it. Has anyone experienced something similar?

Adil Mohak
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Sounds like the honeymoon period is over. New sites always rank higher at first so Google can see if people want to visit the site if they find it in the search results.

There are a lot of resources about the SERP honeymoon period but I'll just paste one:

https://www.webdoux.com/blog/10-seo-myths-busted-by-an-ex-googler/

It is true that Google grants brand new domains a Google Honeymoon Period. This is a brief moment during which the website ranks well, despite not having accumulated sufficient SEO signals yet. Sites that tend to do well during this grace period stand a good chance to excel for relevant competitive queries consistently. Most, however, drop once Google has gathered sufficient data “confirming” the new website’s true ranking. While the Honeymoon Period gives new websites some help at its launch, SEO is not a level playing field competition.

Ivo van der Veeken
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First, new sites can take months to be indexed by Google.

In your case, it is indexed, its just not ranked highly.

  • Open a browser
  • Go to google.com
  • Type in site:birabiro.et

You will see that it is indexed.

Rohit Gupta
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