In Order for your blog, website, articles, and all of your content to appear in search engine results. You need to ensure that your website is indexable.
Since Google’s index is a database, here’s how to get listed there.
When an Internet user uses the search engine to find content, Google turns to its index to provide the most relevant content concerning the Internet user’s request.
If your page is not indexed, it does not exist for Google, which will not be able to display it in its search results.
This isn’t the best news if you’re hoping to drive traffic to your website through organic search.
To answer this problem, I wrote this guide which provides more details on indexing and explains why this indexing is important.
I also walk you through how to check if the pages on your site are indexed, how to fix the most common technical SEO issues that cause indexing issues, and how to get Google to re-index your website pages quickly.
Google’s index is simply the list of all web pages that the search engine knows about.
Therefore, if Google does not index one (or more) page (s) of your website, that page (s) will not appear in the search engine’s search results.
To image, suppose that a person wrote a book but no bookstore or library offered that book.
Therefore, no one would find this book since no one would know of its existence. And if anyone were looking for this book, it would be very difficult for them to find it.
As we have seen, web pages that are not indexed do not appear in Google’s database. Therefore, the search engine cannot present this web content in its search engine results pages (SERP).
To index web pages, Google’s crawlers (Googlebot) must first crawl the website.
Therefore, I take this opportunity to come back to the process of how search engines work:
Indexing simply means that the site is stored in Google’s databases. This does not mean that it will appear at the top of the SERPs, however.
Indexing is controlled by predetermined algorithms that take into account elements such as user demand and quality controls.
You can influence indexing by managing how crawlers discover your content online.
If you are reading this article, there is no doubt that you want your website to be indexed by Google. But how do you know and check if this is the case?
Fortunately, the Mountain View giant lets you find out quite easily. Here’s how to check:
You can also use Google Search Console to check if your pages are indexed. The creation of an account and the use of this service are free.
Here’s how to get the information you want:
Finally, you can also use Search Console to check if specific pages on your site have been indexed.
To do this, just paste the URL into the URL inspection tool. If the page is indexed, you will receive the message, “This URL is on Google.”
Google can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to index a website. So it can be frustrating if you’ve just launched a new page and find that it is not yet indexed.
Fortunately, there are steps you can take to make the indexing process more efficient. Below I explain what you can do to speed up this process.
The easiest solution to indexing your page is to request indexing through Google Search Console. To do this:
As we just saw earlier, Google’s indexing process takes time. This means that if your website is new, its content will not be indexed overnight.
In addition, if your site is not perfectly configured to allow crawling by Googlebot, it may not be indexed at all.
Now I will walk you through everything you need to know and everything you need to do to get your website indexed effectively.
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The robots.txt file is a file found at the root of your website. It contains information and instructions for crawlers such as Googlebot, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, and Yahoo.
is quite possible to use this Robots.txt file to help crawlers prioritize the most important pages of your site not to overload your site with queries.
While all of this may sound a bit technical, it boils down to making sure your site is crawlable.
This is the first step to check before going any further. To check the validity of your file, Google provides you with its robots.txt file test tool.
Your file must be free of errors to allow proper crawling for crawlers.
SEO tags are another option available to guide search engine crawlers such as Googlebot.
To simplify, know that there are mainly two types of SEO tags that you need to optimize.
Internal linking helps crawlers find your web pages. Pages that are not linked are called “orphan pages” and are rarely indexed.
In this case, an appropriate site structure can guarantee you an effective internal mesh.
Your sitemap.xml file shows all of the content on your website. A careful study of its content will allow you to identify the pages that are not linked quickly.
In addition to this study, here are some additional tips to improve and optimize the internal mesh:
Relevant and quality content is essential for both indexing and ranking.
To ensure that all of the content on your website is performing very well, feel free to remove lower quality and underperforming pages.
This allows Googlebot to focus on the most valuable pages of your website, making the best use of your “crawl budget” and will allow you to provide a much better experience for your users.
By following these few common-sense tips, you will help Google improve the indexing of your site, and your visitors will be more likely to find your pages in the search results.
This is a great reason to implement them now.
And you, what practices have you put in place to speed up the indexing of your site?
Please feel free to share your experience in the comments, and I look forward to hearing from you.
This post was last modified on May 12, 2021 10:23 PM