How To Get Google To Index Your Website

In my post, I show you how to get Google to index your website step by step.

Google searches constantly searches for new content. You can help Google find and index your website.

Before your blog content can appear on Google, Google has to scan your content.

Once scanned, Google’s algorithm decides if it should appear on Google.

Google’s process is frustrating for new websites because it takes time for Google to complete its checks.

Google has a free tool for website owners to notify Google when they launch a new website or publish a new post.

The free tool is called Google Search Console.

Let’s get Google to index your website.

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How Does Google Find New Websites?

Google has bots that constantly scan the web looking for new content.

When you launch a new website, Google detects the site and crawls it.

Google finds new websites all the time.

How To Get Your Website On Google

Google’s bots will find your website.

You can speed up this process using Google’s free tool, Google Search Console.

Google Search Console is free. You have to verify ownership of your site before you can use it.

Create a free account at search.google.com/search-console/about.

Google offers various methods to verify a website. Once verified, you get the green tick.

How To Submit Your Website To Google For Indexing

Once your website is verified, submit your website URL to Google.

Go to your Google Search Console and paste your site address into the inspect any URL tool.

Click enter, and Google checks its website index database.

If Google has indexed your website, you get this message.

Pages not indexed won’t have the green tick.

In that case, click Request Indexing.

Once you request indexing, Google checks the URL for errors.

If there are no issues with the URL, Google confirms your indexing request.

Click Got It to clear the message.

Repeat this process every time you publish a new blog post.

How To Check If Google Has Indexed Your Website

To check if Google has indexed your website, open a browser tab and type site:(your website URL) into Google.

For example, to check my website, I type site:newblogr.com.

Google lists all pages indexed.

If Google hasn’t indexed your website, you get this message.

You can check for indexed pages in Google Search Console.

On the dashboard menu, select Coverage.

The Coverage report displays errors, warnings, indexed pages, and excluded pages.

Click on the tabs to view details.

For example, I have 168 valid indexed pages.

From the report, I have 106 pages submitted and indexed.

To view the list of pages, click on the text.

I get pages indexed and crawl date information.

Should your report show pages with errors or warnings, I recommend fixing those issues.

Pages with problems probably won’t appear in Google search results.

How Do I Update My Website On Google?

To update your website on Google, request Google index your website using Google Search Console.

Once Google crawls your site, the data is analyzed and indexed.

Changes made on your site change on Google once this process is complete.

You can’t force Google to update. In my experience, Google updates my website within a few days.