Google Not Giving Your Website Credit? Here’s What You Can Do: a blog to address the issue of website indexing and visibility.
A client recently came to me with a problem, “I don’t understand why my website doesn’t show up for any searches on Google when I type in my company name, it only comes up when I type in my name!”
My first thought was that the site was not indexed at all, but that wasn’t really the case. Google showed the site, but it was missing the page title and description.
The following code shows how to solve this problem.
This post is a guest post by Dr. Peter Meyers, who recently visited Google to present his research on Google and SEO. I’ve been following Peter’s work for quite some time now, so when he asked if he could write a guest post, I was thrilled to say yes.
Google Not Giving Your Website Credit? Here’s What You Can Do: a blog to address the issue of website indexing and visibility.
A lot of people are surprised that their websites don’t show up in Google or Bing. They know their site is there and it’s working, but they don’t see it in search results. In fact, we get asked this question all the time.
People ask us, “Is my site down? Have I been penalized?” The answer is almost always no. If you are having trouble getting your website to show up in search results, chances are good that you just haven’t given the search engines enough information about your website yet.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is more art than science — it’s about understanding what people are searching for online, the actual terms they use, and how those searches might change in the future. From there, you can begin to create content for your website that matches what people are
Google still has the issue of not giving credit to all websites. This means that even if your website is completely indexed, it might not show up on the search results. Why does Google do this?
Most people might think that Google doesn’t care about them or their websites. Not true. Google cares about the user and his experience. So, if your website doesn’t contain content that would be useful to your target audience, then you can’t expect Google to show it in the search results.
So, what can you do to ensure that your website gets indexed properly by Google and it also shows up in the search results?
The first thing you need to do is make sure that your website contains quality and original content. Your content should be more than 500 words. It should answer any question a visitor may have, and it should also be relevant to your target audience.
You don’t have to write an essay, but a few paragraphs full of useful information are definitely better than one sentence with no real value for anyone.
You also need to make sure that your content is updated regularly. You don’t have to write a new article every day or every week, but at least once a month should be enough
Not surprisingly, interested parties were quick to offer their own solutions. Some of these suggestions were more constructive than others. One SEO professional, for example, suggested that the author should be “pitch[ing] a fit” at Google’s offices and demanding a search engine specialist solve the problem.
Unfortunately, as any seasoned SEO professional will tell you, there is no fix-it-all solution to issues relating to visibility on search engines. There are, however, steps you can take to increase your chances of being indexed by Google and Bing.
In order to resolve issues with your website’s visibility on search engines, it is important first to identify what isn’t working. Is the website completely unindexed by both Google and Bing? Or is it indexed but not appearing in relevant searches? This will help you determine your next move.
If the site does not appear in searches for its name or its URL, then it may be necessary to submit an XML sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools. A sitemap is an XML file that contains links to all of the pages on your website (including pages that are not linked from other areas of the site). Submitting a sitemap can help Google and Bing index your pages more quickly and efficiently. You
I have to admit that it took me a few years to fully grasp the concept of indexing and search results. When I first started blogging, I would look at my blog traffic and think “Why isn’t Google sending me more traffic?”
I had written some pretty good posts, and although I didn’t know the rules of SEO, I did do basic keyword research.
But even with all this in place, I still couldn’t get my site indexed properly. And it wasn’t until a few years later that I began to understand what was going on.
I learned how to optimize my site for Google, how to keep it up to date with fresh content, how to build backlinks, and how blogs work.
In this post, we are going to cover everything you need to know about getting your website indexed by Google (and other search engines).
This guide is actually created from questions that I received from readers. These are real people who want their websites to rank higher in Google searches; so let’s get started!
Google is an incredibly complex algorithm, and it’s updated about 500-600 times a year. It’s not always easy to understand the inner workings of Google, but what you do need to understand is that it was created for one single purpose: To find the most relevant, high quality content for each search query.
Google is constantly evolving to provide searchers with the best possible results for their queries so they can find exactly what they’re looking for. And while there are hundreds of factors involved in ranking websites and web pages in search results, at its core, Google is just trying to match up websites with searchers.
So if your website isn’t appearing on Google, it’s likely because Google doesn’t think your site ranks highly enough to be included in its search results. Or perhaps your site just isn’t relevant enough for the keywords you want to rank for.
Here are a few reasons why your website might not be appearing on Google:
1. Google hasn’t found your website yet
2. You have no authoritative signals pointing to your website
3. Your website has thin or duplicate content
4. Your site has too many ads above the fold
5. Your site isn’t
Okay, so you’ve spent the last week or two reading up on SEO, and you’re ready to put it into action. You create a website and publish great content that gets indexed by Google and other search engines. You’re expecting your website to show up in the results when people search for related terms. But after a week of waiting, your site doesn’t show up anywhere in the search results.
What’s going on?
There are countless reasons why this might be happening (and we’ll get to them later), but first off, don’t panic! It’s probably not that your whole website has been deindexed from Google. Actually, it’s quite unlikely that your whole website has been deindexed unless you’ve done something really bad like buying backlinks, participating in link schemes, or using black-hat SEO techniques.*
*More likely is that only some pages or posts on your site have been deindexed – not the entire site as a whole. And while it’s hard to narrow down exactly which pages may have been deindexed, one way is to use Google Search Console to see if there are any pages that are no longer appearing in the index.**
**In this post, I’ll explain how you can find out if