Why My Site Is Not Indexed By Google?

This is perhaps the most repeated whine in relation to doing Search Engine Optimization!

Since you know that internet is going anywhere; you are most likely also conscious that having a site is about as vital today as having a cell phone. It’s a reality, whether you like it or not, that the way things are.

Now motivated by the awareness of the fact that an online presence with a top search engine position in Google could dramatically change your business, you decide to join the world of online business.

You finally completed the construction of your site and are just submitted it to Google waiting for the good news then… nothing happened!

What happened! So you go online and look for all the SEO help forums and sites you can find and post your thread:

“Why Google Doesn’t Index My Site?", ultimately, you will also state that you did everything, plus submitting a sitemap, that you have a few inbound links, etc…

Google Indexing Process

Let’s review how Google proceed to index a page or site:

  1. You build a site.
  2. You submit it to Google.
  3. Your website is after that queued by Google to be crawled.
  4. Your website is crawled.
  5. Your website is analyzed.
  6. If it's considered appropriate it will be indexed.

If you need your website to be indexed, you have to foremost make sure that it gets crawled, and unless Googlebot is conscious of that, it's never going to happen.

Maybe a good way for you to start should have been to learn a bit about Google SEO, before you started, but since you are here already, let’s see what we can do about it.

It’s All About Crawling

Googlebot travels across the internet by followings links from different websites it knows until it discovers fresh or new content. Logically, if your site is not linked by other crawled sites, Googlebot will never be able to find you, unless of course you decide to sent a submission request.

Okay you can do that, still it's not a great solution. If you consider just how many new sites are created each and every day, not even taking into consideration the billions of pages that are updated, let me tell you right now that the waiting list is going to be very long…

Just for your information, here’s the priority order in which Googlebot crawls sites:

  1. Fresh content from authority sites.
  2. Fresh content from other websites.
  3. Unsystematic internet crawling.
  4. Submission requests.

Subsequently by submitting your website for inclusion, you kind of come very last on the list… in reality it could take months literally!

Helping Googlebot

Googlebot behaves a lot like human beings, it doesn’t like to be told to do something, but rather do thing its own way, that is finding content by itself.

Once you are crawled, more often than not unless you have done something really inappropriate, it's a breeze to be indexed.

The easiest means for Googlebot to stumble on you is to be where it loves to crawl!

  • Wordpress blogs.
  • Authority webpages.
  • Appropriate webpages.

As for your Sitemap, it's onlya tool used to assist Googlebot find out which pages you'd like it to crawl. Consider, it's just a proposition and doesn't assure at all that Googlebot will crawl all the webpages of your sitemap or index them.

In Conclusion

Remember, there’s a huge difference between having a page crawled and being indexed.

If you are really serious about getting an online presence on Google, I strongly recommend you to attend some kind of SEO training course, even free ones, just to make sure that you get at least the basic knowledge and understanding of what it takes to be successful online.