Every time we create a new website, our main goal is to get it indexed by Google as soon as possible. Although there is no time guarantee as to when the search engine will index your site, there are certain steps that can help you avoid the worst case scenario and make the search engines work for you. According to Google, crawling and indexing are processes that can take time and often depend on several factors. No predictions or guarantees can be made as to when the URL will be indexed.
Therefore, in this article, we will address some factors that must be taken into account for a quick indexing of your site in Google.
Understand what indexing is
Most of you may not be familiar with the term indexing. In SEO, it refers to search engines keeping track of the web pages on your site. When the search engine bots start crawling your site based on the index and non-index meta tags, it continues adding pages with index tags. In simple words, it is the way the spider processes and collects data from pages during its crawl, which helps improve search results. The spider notes the new changes and documents and adds them to the search index maintained by Google. Google’s algorithm goes to work and decides where to rank the page among all the others based on the keywords.
Enter your URL on Google’s URL submission page:
Once you’ve created your new website or pages, you can visit Google’s Submit URL page and then type the URL in the box, check the captcha, and hit the Submit Request button. But for this, you need to create an account in webmaster tools using your Google account. Once this is done, you can wait for your website pages to be indexed in Google.
Create a sitemap of your site:
The next thing to consider is creating an XML file that stores all the links and pages on your site to help Google’s crawlers quickly find your entire website. Every time you update or create a blog on your site, include the HTML sitemap link on every page so the search engine bot can index your site, even if it starts from any corner of your site.
Use Google Search Console to crawl your site:
Google often recommends logging into its search console once a month to check for errors or drops in traffic. The site offers a variety of tools related to indexing and you will be able to confirm whether Google can access your pages or not. You can even notify the search engine about a domain change or any change in address and even issue urgent blocks on your content that you want removed from your site.
Use Robots.txt
In case you are not a developer or programmer, you may have seen a file, robots.txt in your domain files. This is a plain text file that resides in the root directory of your domain. Give strict instructions to search engine spiders about which pages they can crawl and index. When spiders find a new domain or file, they read the instructions before taking any action. So your first step for your new site is to confirm that the site has a robots.txt file. This can be done by checking the FTP or by clicking on File Manager through CPanel.
Submit your site to blog directories:
This is another means of getting your site indexed very quickly in Google. Most blog directories allow you to submit your site content for free. They also give links and traffic. Also be sure to create social media profiles and use sites like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. to create pages for your site and regularly submit new posts on them.
