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A SEO Slack Community Success Story

Written by: Eric Vallee Tags: technical-seo, local-seo, community

Published: Mar 24, 2025

As a solo SEO consultant, it can be difficult when confronted with problems with SEO on a website. Internet searches and YouTube research will only get you so far; and Reddit is very tricky to use a resource as you never really know if people providing guidance truly have experience in search engine optimization.

That is why I am so thankful for The SEO Community on Slack. It is a community of experienced SEOs who are willing to share their knowledge to help others succeed. Noah and the community-moderators make sure that people who join the community are actually SEO pros who have a passion for learning and helping. I've been part of the community for almost a year now, and I recently had a success story that I would like to share.

Issue with Getting Pages in Google's Index

I had been having trouble with a few websites in that certain pages were being left out of Google's Index. With the help of The SEO Community, I was able to solve this problem. Here is an overview of the project.

In June of 2024, one of my clients began noticing some of their web pages weren't being included in Google's Index. I tried the normal things such as making sure the pages were in the XML sitemap, and going into Google Search Console to do a live test of the URL to see if there were issues

I didn't see any issues, so we requested indexing for the pages. I did this several times over the course of several weeks. This was unsuccessful, so I deleted the XML sitemap and resubmitted it. Still no success.

In October, I reached out to members of The SEO Community's Google Search Console Channel and listed my issue. I got responses almost immediately from members of the community including John S, Dylan Jones, Mike Lepisto and Kyle, with a variety of terrific suggestions. Among these were checking rendering, checking the header cache control, and modifying lazy loading. Since some of these were technical, I involved my client's developer and implemented them.

Unfortunately, none of these were successful at getting the page in Google's Index.

Since my own website, silverfoxmke.com, was experiencing similar issues with the service page not being in Google's index, I decided to try again, this time using my own site, since I have more control over it.

In February, I went to The SEO Community's Technical SEO Channel and submitted a request. Again, almost immediately, I got great suggestions from Kyle, Dan, Hellemans, Clotaire Damy and John Mueller.

I DM'd Kyle and he took a deeper look and offered some great suggestions (which he did for free, even though I offered to pay for his time).

I followed his suggestions, and on March 10^th, I finally got my services page into Google's index!!!

This is a great example of how The SEO Community on Slack helps people solve issues related to search marketing. It also illustrates the power of people coming together to share their knowledge and specific skills.