XML Sitemaps Fed into GSC Reverse Complete Index Purges Triggered by 10-Day Outages

To recover from a complete index purge, I resubmit the homepage and XML sitemaps directly through GSC, reveals Michael Martinez.

Server downtime exceeding 10 consecutive days forces Googlebot to drop the entire domain from the index.

During one prolonged server outage, this hard threshold erased over 100 websites overnight.

Feeding the root URL and sitemaps back into the console breaks the crawler block and triggers a full domain re-crawl.

The action repopulates the search results and restores previous traffic volume within a few weeks.