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How to Get Google to Index Your Website

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Google’s index is a library of hundreds of billions of web pages. It’s what people search through when they use Google. Unless the pages on your website are in this index, there’s absolutely zero chance of them showing up in Google’s search results. But how do you know if your site’s in Google’s index, and how do you get it there if not?  How to check if you’re indexed in Google If you want a rough idea of how many pages on your website Google has indexed, go to Google, search for site:yourwebsite.com and look at the number of results below the search bar.  If you want to check whether a particular page is indexed, you’ll get the most accurate results using the  URL Inspection tool  in Google Search Console.  For indexed pages, you’ll see this:  For pages that aren’t indexed, you’ll see this:  How to get indexed by Google If you have valuable content for searchers, getting indexed tends to be easy enough. You just need to make sure Googl...

How to Force Google to Index Your Website and Ways to Fix Common Crawling Issues

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This article covers the initial steps you need to understand  how to get your website on Google . I’ll cover a quick overview of what Google looks for when indexing websites on its search results pages and a step-by-step tutorial for getting your site listed on Google search. This article is intended for those with little understanding of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but can serve as a checklist of sorts for the experienced as well. If you need help, get in touch with me to discuss   advanced analysis of your search rankings. How Google indexes websites. Search engines provide a result for a search query. Google wants to provide the best, most accurate results as high as possible on the search results page. To do this, they crawl millions of web pages, catalog information, rank it, and place what they feel are the best results on the search engine results page in order of relevance to the user. There are dozens of factors that play into how well your website ranks for a gi...