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June 7th, 2020.
Web design

How to get indexed by google [Fast]

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With the number of website reaching close to two billions, we can say that Google spider’s is an increasingly busy bee. We found out that indexation time are now reaching up to a month. Reaching to Google might help make the process faster. This is why it is important to act fast. The problem is if Google doesn’t index your website, then you’re pretty much invisible. You won’t show up for any search queries, and you won’t get any organic traffic whatsoever.

Given that you’re here, I’m guessing this isn’t news to you. So let’s get straight down to business.

This article teaches you how to fix any of these three problems:

  1. Your entire website isn’t indexed.
  2. Some of your pages are indexed, but others aren’t.
  3. Your newly-published web pages aren’t getting indexed fast enough.

But first, let’s make sure we’re on the same page and fully-understand this indexing malarkey.

What is crawling and indexing?

Google discovers new web pages by crawling the web, and then they add those pages to their index. They do this using a web spider called Googlebot. Confused? Let’s define a few key terms:

  • Crawling: The process of following hyperlinks on the web to discover new content.
  • Indexing: The process of storing every web page in a vast database.
  • Web spider: A piece of software designed to carry out the crawling process at scale.
  • Googlebot: Google’s web spider.

When you Google something, you’re asking Google to return all relevant pages from their index. Because there are often millions of pages that fit the bill, Google’s ranking algorithm does its best to sort the pages so that you see the best and most relevant results first. The critical point I’m making here is that indexing and ranking are two different things.Indexing is showing up for the race; ranking is winning. You can’t win without showing up for the race in the first place.

How to check if you’re indexed in Google

Go to Google, then search for site:yourwebsite.com

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This number shows roughly how many of your pages Google has indexed. If you want to check the index status of a specific URL, use the same site:yourwebsite.com/web-page-slug operator

No results will show up if the page isn’t indexed. Now, it’s worth noting that if you’re a Google Search Console user, you can use the Coverage report to get a more accurate insight into the index status of your website. Just go to: Google Search Console > Index > Coverage. Also, if you are not a user. Register. It's that important.

Google Search Console

How to get indexed by Google

Found that your website or web page isn’t indexed in Google? Try this:

  1. Go to Google Search Console
  2. Navigate to the URL inspection tool
  3. Paste the URL you’d like Google to index into the search bar.
  4. Wait for Google to check the URL
  5. Click the “Request indexing” button

This process is good practice when you publish a new post or page. You’re effectively telling Google that you’ve added something new to your site and that they should take a look at it. However, requesting indexing is unlikely to solve underlying problems preventing Google from indexing old pages.