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Homepage url disapear

I'm on Blogger, and when I save the HTML, the home URL disappears. I've been searching for months, but being a near-novice, I haven't found a solution.

The link is in the menu, the first one on the left. When I save the widget in Blogger Layout and load the page, I see the home URL, but when I edit the HTML, it disappears, and the menu link goes from 4 to 3.

Furthermore, since I've had this problem, I've also lost indexing for my home pages. Perhaps this information can be helpful. I've worked hard on my site's SEO, but I get zero results, and Search Console indexing hasn't improved after 10 months.

My sitemap hasn't been read by Search Console since December.

I apologize again for merging multiple topics, but I'm convinced my problem isn't SEO. It may not be the best SEO, but having zero indexed pages is impossible. Not only that, but I've also lost unindexed pages; they're declining. I have over 4,000 published posts.

I tried creating a test blog with the same theme, and the home URL remains there. So I'm ruling out a theme issue.

Finally, this is my third site in five years, and this time I wanted to do things properly, using Blogger instead of wordpress.org, as I no longer have the money. Okay, Blogger isn't the best choice for SEO, but it's better than nothing. I've put all my accumulated experience into this site and tried to improve the aspects I was making wrong. Not only that, I've compared various competitors' site design methods and taken inspiration from them. This way, I can avoid the mistakes of the past.

website: https://yoursupergames.blogspot.com/ images: https://imgur.com/a/nUvvksD

I expected to have a simple site to build with Blogger, despite the need for several HTML and JavaScript additions for completeness.

Unfortunately, despite my enormous efforts, the results are zero. It may not be the best site in the world, but I can't even get the homepage indexed or AdSense validation.

Search Console sees a redirect to the homepage and confirms the error with every validation attempt. However, if I test the homepage with Search Console, it tells me the page is indexable.

I remind you that I'm not asking how to improve my SEO, but rather questions related to technical HTML errors that completely prevent Google from showing up. I would have accepted the last job and given up after all the hard work I've put in over five years. But no! Not even last, so I probably did something wrong, especially with Blogger, where I think I did everything right (or almost everything) on ​​the SEO front.

Solution

  • Symptoms

    Root causes (Blogger-specific)

    1. A Custom redirect touching / or /index.html.

    2. Mobile variant ?m=1 confusing canonical.

    3. Menu built from a Pages/Link List gadget that lost its “Home” entry when HTML was edited.

    4. Overzealous robots/canonical edits.

    Fixes

    1. Settings → Errors and redirects → Custom redirects

      • Delete any rule involving / or /index.html.

    2. Settings → Basic → HTTPS

      • HTTPS ON + “Redirect HTTP to HTTPS” ON (this redirect is fine).

    3. Layout → your menu gadget

      • Add “Home” with URL / (not a label/static page).

      • If editing HTML, keep a stable item:

      <li class='home'><a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></li>

      Avoid conditionals that hide it (e.g., data:blog.url != data:blog.homepageUrl).

    4. Settings → Crawlers and indexing

      • Temporarily disable custom robots.txt to rule it out.

      • Robots headers: Homepage = index,follow; Posts/Pages = index,follow; Archives/Search = noindex (optional).

      • In <head> ensure:

      <link expr:href='data:blog.canonicalUrl' rel='canonical'/>

    5. Sitemaps (GSC)

      • Submit only https://<blog>.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml (it’s an index; fetch frequency being low is normal).

    Validate (GSC)