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Hello,

I have classic page with 5-6 pages, some photos, contact.. I have been on first page in search for few years. Now I update my page (added new language, so urls change from .cz/aaa to .cz/cs/aaa and .cz/pl/aaa)
After I did it, google deleted me from search.

In webmastertools I have no errors, but index = 0.

What Can I do now? Can I test or do somethink, or I must wait?

Thanks.

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Short, practical addendum for : changing URL paths for language variants often confuses indexation when language and canonical signals are missing or inconsistent. The earlier replies point at useful checks; below are additional, technical items to test now that haven't been covered in detail.

  • Verify there is no accidental meta robots "noindex" or X-Robots-Tag header on the new pages (common when a CMS language plugin is misconfigured). Use a raw HTTP header check or view-source to confirm the pages are served with the expected headers and HTML.
  • Ensure canonical tags do not point to a different language variant. Each language page should canonicalize to itself, not to a single master page; otherwise Google will consolidate and drop other language URLs.
  • Implement and validate hreflang correctly so Google knows which URL serves which language. Common mistakes: missing self-reference, wrong language codes, or inconsistent URLs between hreflang and the actual pages. Example (place inside the <head> of each language page):
    <link rel="alternate" hreflang="cs" href="https://yourdomain.cz/cs/aaa" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="pl" href="https://yourdomain.cz/pl/aaa" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://yourdomain.cz/" />
  • Confirm each language version contains genuinely localized titles, meta descriptions and visible content (not just machine-translated duplicates). Duplicate content across language folders can prevent separate indexing.
  • Check that content is rendered server-side (or that crawlers can see the same text your browser sees). If the page relies on JS to inject all visible text, crawlers may not index it.

Note: , and others raised good operational points—use the checklist above to find the likely cause, fix tags/headers/content, then watch your Search Console reports over the following days; indexing should recover once signals are consistent.

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Member Avatar for dukee00

Submitt your page on different directories , post it in yahoo answers , spreat it on social site , it may indexed that day of your submission

Member Avatar for kishoreseo

Open webmaster tools and submit new url in Fetch as Google, it will automatically index your new page....happy fetching

Member Avatar for Nada_1

i think you have face the problem of Language changes. Google unable to change the url languages which your have used before. after the change of URL your all previous work and efforts are lost and you may need to start with begning.

Member Avatar for PixelatedKarma

Hello mommek,

Welcome to DaniWeb. I think you have a small yet painful underlying problem. First it is good that they removed the old pages very quickly - thats good because it means that they (Google) are crawling your website on a frequent basis.

Now as of for why you are no longer ranked. By changing your directory structure (which you did) you basically did the equivilent of creating brand new pages. These will take some time to rank. In order to help you get back on track my first suggestions would be:
1. Make sure your sitemap is updated and submitted to Google. This will tell them the location of the pages, the importance and when they were last updated.
2. Do a site:www.yoururl.com search of your domain to see what has actually been indexed by Google (Google webmaster and analytics is 3 days+ behind on reporting)
3. Check your web host's logs to find out where your traffic is landing, use 301 redirects to your new pages
4. Make sure that your robots.txt isn't blocking anything important or anything you don't want blocked
5. Update all your backlinks to point to the new URL pages of your website
6. Make sure your pages/urls are search engine friendly.

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