Suddenly my websites are not appearing on search engines

pipoy wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:34 pm

Hi,

I just noticed that in the past 2 months, my 2 websites (hosted on the same unmanaged VPS server) are suddenly getting removed in search engines.

Look at the trend.

https://newgearday.com


https://dragon-switch.com


this has been my robots.txt for years.

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /*&filter
Disallow: /*&limit
Disallow: /*&sort
Disallow: /*?route=account/
Disallow: /*?route=affiliate/
Disallow: /*?route=checkout/
Disallow: /*?route=product/search
Sitemap: https://website.com/sitemap.xml

Console also tells me that my sites cannot be crawled. And Sitemaps have errors fetching.
I couldn't force a fetch on google because there is no such button. If I deleted a submitted sitemap, and add new one. The old data will just appear and say Last read was a long time ago.

https://newgearday.com


https://dragon-switch.com



Now I removed the disallow and see if that can help.
New robots.txt

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User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://website.com/sitemap.xml

I also tried Inspect URL, but I get an error that my website cannot be crawled. Force indexing is blocked as well.




I need your opinions about this.
I am not sure if this is an Opencart issue, SEO Module issue or a server issue.