Just writing a post and publishing it is not enough. It needs to be indexed and crawled for the Google search engine. Follow the information below to check your website ranking.
Ranking of a website on Google and showing the website in Google search are two different things. The website has to be submitted and indexed to show up in the search engines. And to get ranked, perfect SEO, mobile friendly page, useful and quality content is needed.
Why website doesn't show up on Google?
For any website to appear in Google search, that website has to be submitted to Google Search Console. Indexing reads pages or blog posts to be included in the index of search engines.
Indexing and crawling is a slow process. How often does Google indexing or crawling that depends on your website. If your website or blog is new, then the process of indexing and crawling is completed within three to four days.
After this, you can look it up on Google to be sure whether your page or post has been indexed in Google search or not. You have to type the URL of your post in Google search or you can also see by pasting the page URL. For example - https://www.example.com/page url.html.
Primarily our sole objective is to make our website rank on Google search. Sometimes we get worried that our website is getting ranked on Google or not? We new bloggers also think that due to experience blogger our website is not able to rank or the content we have written is not good enough due to which the website is not showing on Google. This is completely wrong.
Maybe what you think is true. But have you indexed the post in the Google search console? Have those posts been submitted? If you have done, then check in Google search. Is your website page showing?
How to check your website on Google?
To know whether your website or blog post is showing on Google or not, you can check your website's URL or page's URL with the help of Google search. See the example below to show you how to search.
To search for a website - type https://www.example.com/ or copy and paste the URL of the website's home page and see if your website is showing up on Google?
To search the page- copy and paste the URL of the page or post and see if your blog post is showing?
If you want to search and see how many posts of your website are showing on Google or you can also check how many images given in the post are showing on Google.
For this you have to search - site:example.com/ or site:url of website/.
Why this error message show?
This is about your SEO settings, specifically robots.txt and meta tag settings. These settings are important to rank on Google for your website.
To check your robots.txt settings, go to the Google search bar and type in the site:example.com/robots.txt and do a search. You will be able to read robots.txt clearly.
What is robots.txt file?
The robots.txt file is one through which you can instruct Googlebot which part of the website to crawl and which part not to crawl. You can read my previous article about robots.txt file. How to generate robots.txt file and fix how it is blocked by robots.txt?
How to do the robots.txt settings?
First of all, log in to your website with a Google account, click on settings and scroll down, click on custom robots.txt and turn it on.
Then, paste the sitemap to generate code. the above-given code is generated by sitemap XML. you need to generate sitemap XML code from the sitemap generator.
How to create sitemap code for robots.txt?
follow the below step to create code
- Open Sitemap Generator in Google chrome
- Paste your website URL
- Click on Sitemap to generate
- Copy the code from the User to last
- Back to the blog settings in custom ribots.txt
- Paste the code that you copied
- and save
You can paste the sitemap code anywhere in the robots.txt file. it is necessary.
How to do the Meta tag settings?
- Click on home page tag - turn on all, noodp
- save
- Click on archive and search page tags - turn on no index, noodp
- save
- Click on the post and page tags - turn on all, noodp
- save
How to request for Indexing?
After these settings, when you publish a post, submit it to Search Console URL Inspection and request for indexing. And do the live test so that you will know whether there is any error in this page or not.
You can use the process given below to send a request for indexing of the page.
- Log in to Google Search Console with Google Account
- select property
- Click on URL Inspection
- paste the url of the page
- click enter
- If index is not available then click on Indexing Request
- If your message shows that you are not on Google, then click on Live URL Test.
.From the information above, hopefully, you will have understood how to check your website's ranking, second how to check robots.txt, third how to create sitemap generated code, and finally how to set robots.txt and meta tag is done.
By following the given steps and information, hopefully, you can see the rank of your website on Google search. If you have any questions regarding posts or steps, comment on them for sure, I will answer them.
Conclusion
I hope, my check website ranking on Google article could help you in the improvement of your blog. If you want any suggestions that needed to be included in the article, you can comment on them. I will surely get back to you.
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