But if you have a new website and you still can’t find any of its URLs manually on search engines , in this case, you might have some indexing problems !
Summary [ Hide ]
- Video on how to index your website
- Causes of website indexing failure
- Check your website indexing on Google
- Indexing your site on Google: 5 main activities
- Fixing robots.txt
- Manual source code check – noindex tag
- Sitemap.xml creation
- Open Google Search Console and submit Sitemap
- Quickly index a site page on Google
- How to Index a Website: 3 Support Activities
- Index WordPress Site: Errors and Solutions
- Check correct indexing of a site after the interventions
- Indexing and Positioning: Here’s the Difference
- Conclusion
In this article I will explain how to index a site on Google and how to allow Google Bot to easily crawl your web pages. Here is what we will cover:
Video on how to index your website
If you prefer video content to reading this article, I recommend you watch this one on my YouTube channel!
Causes of website indexing failure
The reasons why a site is not indexed country email list on Google are often extremely trivial, easy to solve and in some cases are due to carelessness of the programmer, the web master or the owner of the site.
These actions can however create great.
Generally the main causes are the following:
- robots.txt where access is prevented
- single pages with no index tag
- CMS settings that do not allow crawling the site
- site authority and architecture – structural and trust issues that could delay Google’s indexing but not compromise it. In simple terms it is only a question of time and speed of indexing but not of errors.
Check your website indexing on Google
For a quick initial check and to verify if new frequencies for mobile: consultation opens your site is indexed on Google , enter the advanced command site:sitename.it in the Google search bar. If the engine does not return any results then it is the confirmation that your site is not being scanned by the Google bot. The command is not very precise, but it provides you with an initial piece of data for your analysis.
Another quick way to check that your site is not blocking any spider is to use Screaming Frog . This desktop spider lets you know in a few seconds if your site is indexable .
If once the scan is finished you do not see cell phone number any URLs then the site probably, barring particular situations, could have the robots.txt “blocked” or some setting on the Screaming Frog spider (in this case you should try changing the type of User Agent). If instead you see all the pages, it means that the site should not have any kind of problem, but to confirm you have to look at the “Indexability” column where it is indicated if the page is Indexable or Non-indexable.