Is Google Indexing your website?
Did you know that it's possible to get Google to index your site quickly? Learn how to make sure that Google can crawl and index your site faster than your competition.
Indexing is but one step in a full series of steps that are required for an effective SEO strategy.
These steps include the following, and they can be boiled down into around three steps total for the entire process:
Crawling.
Indexing.
Ranking.
Although it can be boiled down that far, these are not necessarily the only steps that Google uses. The actual process is much more complicated
2. Although Google crawls
billions of pages, it's
inevitable that some sites
will be missed. According
to google Crawlers miss a
site, it's frequently for one
of the following reasons:
3. Your site isn't linked to by other sites
on the web. See if you can get your
site linked to by other sites (but
please don't pay them to link to you;
that could be considered a violation
of Google's guidelines
Reason 1
4. You've just launched a
new site and Google
hasn't had time to
crawl it yet. It can take
a few weeks for
Google to notice a
new site, or any
changes in your
existing site.
Reason 2
5. The design of the site makes it difficult for
Google to crawl its content effectively. If
your site is built on some other specialized
technology, rather than HTML, Google
might have trouble crawling it correctly.
Remember to use text, not just images or
video, on your site.
Reason 3
6. Google missed it: Although
Google crawls billions of pages,
it's inevitable that we'll miss a
few sites, especially small ones.
Wait a while, and try to get
linked from other sites.
Reason 4
7. To see if your pages are already
indexed, search for your site in Google
Search with a query like this.
Substitute your own site for
"example.com".
site:example.com
Reason 5
8. Google automatically looks for sites to add
to our index; you usually don't even need
to do anything except post your site on the
web. However, sometimes sites get
missed. Check to see if your site is on
Google and learn how to make your
content more visible in Google Search.
