When I reload the page "
https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-b...", I get
Request URL: https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-b...
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 304 Not Modified
So maybe it's the status code? Shouldn't that page return a 200 ok?
When I go to blog.james..., I first get a 301 moved permanently, and then journal.james... loads, but it returns a 304 not modified, even if i then reload the page.
Only when I fully sumbit the URL again in the URL-bar, it responds with a 200.
Maybe crawling also returns a 304, and Google won't index that?
Maybe prompt: "why would a 301 redirect lead to a 304 not modified instead of a 200 ok?", "would this 'break' Google's crawler?"
> When Google's crawler follows the 301 to the new URL and receives a 304, it gets no content body. The 304 response basically says "use what you cached"—but the crawler's cache might be empty or stale for that specific URL location, leaving Google with nothing to index.