Institutional sites of Italian municipalities disappeared from Google: anomalies in SEO indexing?
If in the past few hours you have tried to search for the institutional website of your municipality on Google and you were unable to find it, know that you are not alone. As various reports on Reddit demonstrate, in fact, the disappearance of the institutional sites of many Italian municipalities from Google search results has afflicted several local administrations, raising doubts and concerns both in the latter and among indexing experts and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), i.e. those who optimize online content for work to make it more attractive to search engines. Some municipal portals, which have always been fundamental for access to services and public information in their territory, have been downgraded or even totally excluded from the search engine index, the so-called SERP (Search Engine Results Page), i.e. the page containing the search results, and without any apparent explanation.
Trying to monitor the status of these sites using special tools, such as Google Search Consolein fact, the message “Page is not indexed: Page crawled, but not currently indexed”, indicating that Google has actually analyzed the contents present on these sites, but decided not to make them visible in the search results. It is currently unclear why this happened.
