Google Problems - Page Not Appearing In Search

[SCEtoAUX]

Hi all.

I look after a website for a local business. Most pages get found just fine with Google, but there's one page that just refuses to appear. The site is built in Wordpress, all pages are public, and Yoast is giving me the green light for the page.

I won't post the site URL, but as an example:

www.mysite.co.uk - Gets found fine for general searches about what they do
www.mysite.co.uk/widgets - Gets found just fine when I search for widgets and where they're based
www.mysite.co.uk/dongles - Just will not appear, even when searching for "mysite dongles"

What does appear, when searching for dongles and where they're based, is the home page on page two of Google. The home page mentions dongles among other things, but the dongles page should be the one that gets found, and it ought to get found on page one I think.

Additionally if I search for "mysite dongles" the home page gets listed first on page one, but not the dongles page.

I've done a search as suggested by Google for "site:mysite.co.uk/dongles" and it appears in the index, but it just refuses to get found.

Some pointers/suggestions here would be much appreciated, it's almost as if one page is blacklisted but I find that hard to believe. Happy to send actual links via DM but I don't think it's right to post links on the thread.

[king arthur]

This happens when there's something about the page Google doesn't like, so instead of showing it in the results it shows a different page from the site. It's likely to be keyword density or some other technicality that violates Google's rules.

[The Moose]

Have you checked the search console for anything amiss?

And Analytics?

[SCEtoAUX]

Yes, I've used search console and there are no warnings about the site, though digging deeper into the specific page suggests some kind of redirect/canonical issue.

That's where I'm looking again now though, I suspect the answer will be there but the page didn't ought to be any different from any of the others, it's just a Wordpress page built with Page Builder plus a few links, words and images.

[ging84]

If you have a link tag on the site with a canonical URL that basically says this is a copy the real page is here, if that points to a page that doesn't exist or potentially even if it just redirects you'll have trouble getting indexed. It's ok to have a cannonical that points to its self directly but make sure it is not showing http that redirects to Https or a domain apex that redirects to www.

[The Moose]

PM the link over

[SCEtoAUX]

The Moose said:

PM the link over

Will do but the thread has prompted me to try a little harder with Search Console. I'll learn better that way but if i get nowhere I'll take up your kind offer.

[The Moose]

The e-mail address you sent the PM from doesn't exist. Can you PM me a real address?