If you are a online content creator to reach out to big communities and share your content with them you need to get indexed on Google or other similar search consoles (Yandex, Bing etc.) with the help of search motors.
People who is needed that information in your website can reach you through searching. It is important to get indexed on search motor we understand that fact so how we gonna do it, let's dive in.
What Is Google’s Index?
Google’s index is simply a list of all the webpages that the search engine knows about. If Google doesn’t index your website, your site won't appear in Google’s search results.
Why Indexing is Important?
Making your page appear on search engine search results is called indexing. When you successfully index, the result you get will be more traffic and whenever you post any new content, it will be discovered more quickly.
How indexing Process Work?
Crawling: Search engine crawlers, also called spiders, robots or just bots, are programs or scripts that systematically and automatically browse pages on the web. The purpose of this automated browsing is typically to read the pages the crawler visits in order to add them to the search engine's index.
Indexing: Search engines process and store information they find in an index, a huge database of all the content they’ve discovered and deem good enough to serve up to searchers.
Ranking: The search engine ranks the website in terms of metrics like relevance and user-friendliness.
How Can I Tell If My Website Has Been Indexed?
If you are a curious people like me and can not wait to see statics report of the Google Search Console like me, you can find out with this three steps.
In the Google search bar, type in “site:example.com.”
When you look under the search bar, you’ll see the Google results, if zero results show up, the page isn’t indexed.
How Much Time Does Google Need for Indexing?
It can take Google anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to index a site.
How Do I Get Google to Index My Site?
Google created a service for that purpose. You can register and create your account for your website, it is Google Search Console (https://search.google.com/search-console/)
How to Get Indexed on Google Easily with 10 Steps?
There are 10 step to get indexed on Google easily.
1- Get Visible on Search Engine
1. Check WordPress Settings for Search Engine Visibility
Login to the backend of your WordPress website
Go to Settings > Reading
Make sure the Search Engine Visibility box is UNCHECKED.
2. Check Wix Settings for Search Engine Visibility
Go to SEO Tools in your site dashboard.
Click SEO Settings.
Make sure the Let search engines index your site toggle is enabled.
2- Setup a Search Console Account
1. Navigate to Google Search Console
2. Enter your Website’s Domain (or URL-Prefix) to Add a Property.
3. Verify your website.
4. Index>Sitemap apply your sitemap to Google Search Console.
3- Create Your First Content
Create your first content, most of the people doesn't talk about this but google doesn't like empty pages so If you are beginner don't forget to add content while applying for indexing.
4- Create Back-Links
Backlinks are important tools for the google bots to find your website in a bunch of websites.
You can thing as internet as a highway and backlinks are the busses so our bot can find and reach our website with backlinks easily and backlinks affect of the indexing ranking as well.
5- Create Internal Links
When Google Crawler reach one of our page, If we create a internal link network than with one page Google can recognize our all sitemap.
6- Create a Sitemap
Most of the services are now providing the sitemaps without any installation as default but if you do not have the one, you must create it. It is vital for crawlers recognize and keep visiting our website in a routine.
7- Check Crawl Blocks in Robot TXT
Robots.txt is a file that tells Google bots which pages it can or can’t crawl. There are a few terms we should clarify.
User-agent – the bot you’re allowing or disallowing crawling (“*” means it applies to all bots)
Disallow – disallow crawling of the specific webpage
Allow – allow crawling of the specific content.
If you’re creating a Robots.txt file on your own, you must make sure to check it so you know it’s correct.
8- Check the Quality of Content
If you want to rank high, you must de-indexing low-quality pages.
These are usually webpages, such as:
Outdated content – it’s not relevant anymore, so you should either update it or deindex it.
Duplicate content – Google algorithm penalizes websites with duplicate content. You should use deindex it or use the canonical tag (more on that later).
Page with no content – these are pages such as “Thank you for your purchase.” They should be deindexed.
Low Quality Content– these are pages information makes no sense or have not relaible information, they should be deindexed.
Find the indexed pages by typing “site:yoursite.com” to Google and check it manually.
9- Create Social Media Accounts for Your Website
Branding is important step for reach out more people and we know there is too many traffic at social applications or websites so we need to drive some traffic our site with the help of our social media accounts and this is gonna work as back link as well.
10- Improve Website Speed
Loading speed content of the page is important because Google keep track of how easily reach the website so while maintaining low load pages with high speed server is important.
*Bonus*
Security is a top priority for Google. They are investing a lot in making sure that their services use industry-leading security, like strong HTTPS so If you website does not have a SSL certificate indexing going to be huge problem.