Difference between revisions of "Learn/Get-Your-Website-Indexed"

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How to check which pages on your website are indexed:

• Try searching in Google for "site:yourwebsite.com" and see what turns up. This isn't 100% accurate, but it can give you a rough idea of what you're working with.
• Use this tool...

Main ways:

• Creating a sitemap can help search engines find and index more pages on your website
• Get inbound links to your site. The primary way that search engines find new sites and web pages to add to its index and search results is by following links from other websites.
  • Ask a friend or related website to link to your site, get a DoFollow link from AboutUs.org, add yourself to some directories, etc.
• If your site is brand new and doesn't have any pages in search engines yet, submitting it to search engines can help. Here is Google's submission form.
• Let people know about your site...

Double check:

If none of your website's pages are showing up in search engines, make sure you aren't accidentally telling them not to.

• Look at the page source (in most web browsers, clicking ctrl and the letter U will do this) for one of your web pages and make sure that there isn't something like in there. If a "NOINDEX" tag is there, you will need to remove it because that tells search engines to go away and not put that page in its index.
• Look at yourwebsite.com/robots.txt and make sure you aren't telling search engine spiders to stay out and not index a certain type of page with something like this: User-Agent: * Disallow: /Special/ (This as an example, tells all search engines not to index pages on AboutUs.org that have a URL like AboutUs.org/Special/something.)
• There's no good way to know if Google or another search engine has penalized your site, but...