1,700 lessons. Google indexed 13.

I spent about a month building QuizKoba — a free site where every lesson is a 5-minute read that ends with a quiz. 1,769 lessons across science, mathematics, money, psychology, AI.

Then I checked Google Search Console.

13 pages indexed. Out of 1,769.

The rest sat in "Discovered – currently not indexed." Google had found them, looked at my brand-new domain with zero backlinks, and decided I wasn't worth the crawl budget.

I spent days hunting for a technical bug. There wasn't one. Lighthouse: SEO 100, Accessibility 100, Best Practices 100. Sitemap fine. Static pages, fully crawlable. Content genuinely decent.

The site wasn't broken. Nobody had ever linked to it.

That's an uncomfortable thing to accept, because fixing code is comfortable and asking strangers to care about your thing is not. I kept finding new "urgent" technical work to avoid the actual job.

What I've learned so far:

→ Publishing 1,700 pages in a month on a zero-authority domain looks like a content farm to Google, no matter how good the writing is.

→ Impressions went from 55/day to 242/day after fixing robots.txt and re-submitting. First real click came a week later.

→ The 100 pages that DO show up rank at position 20-50. Page 2-5. Nobody scrolls there.

→ No amount of polishing changes that. Only links do.

So I'm doing the unglamorous thing now: one backlink a day. Directories, a Medium repost, honest answers on Quora, this post.

If you've been through the "great product, invisible on Google" phase — what actually moved the needle for you?

Site: https://quizkoba.com (free, no sign-up)