Check
your site is in the Google index
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Do a site search
When a
webmaster tells us that his or her site has fallen out of our search results,
we often find that it's still included. To quickly determine whether your site
is still in our index, just perform a Google site search for its entire URL. A
search for site: google.com,
for instance, returns the following results: http://www.google.com/search?num... Note that you
shouldn't include a space between the site: operator and your
domain name. If your site is displayed as a result when you perform a Google
site search for your URL, then it's included in our index.However, if your site
used to be indexed and no longer is, it may have been removed for violations of
our Webmaster Guidelines. Review the guidelines and then, once you've fixed any
issues, submit a reconsideration request.
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Verify that your site ranks for your domain
name
Do a Google search for
www.[yourdomain].com. If your site doesn't appear in the results, or if it
ranks poorly in the results, this is a sign that your site may have a manual
spam action for violations of the Webmaster Guidelines. If we find certain problems
with your site—for example, malware—we'll let you know via the Message Center.
You should also review your site against the Webmaster Guidelines. Once you're
sure that any problems have been addressed, submit a reconsideration request.
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Alert us to your new content
If your
site is very new, we may not know about it yet. Tell Google about your site.
One way to expedite Google's discovery of new pages is to submit a Sitemap.
Even if your site is already in the index, Sitemaps are a great way to tell Google
about the pages you consider most important.
See if
your site has been impacted by a manual spam action
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Check the Manual Actions page
While
Google relies on our automated systems to crawl, index, and serve web pages, we
are also willing to take manual action to protect the quality of our search
results. If your site contains spam or is otherwise in violation of our
Webmaster Guidelines, we may take manual action on it, including demoting it or
even removing it from our search results altogether. If your site’s ranking is
impacting by a manual spam action, we’ll tell you about it on the Manual Actions page
of Search Console. (To see this data, you must have added and verified your
site.) (To see this data, you must have added and verified your site.)
Make
sure Google can find and crawl your site
Crawling
is how Google bot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google
index. Our crawl process begins with a list of web page URLs, generated from
previous crawl processes, and augmented with Sitemap data provided by
webmasters. As Googlebot visits each of these websites, it detects links on
each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to
existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update the Google index.
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Check for crawl errors.
The Crawl errors page in Search Console provides details about
the URLs in your site that we tried to crawl and couldn't access. Review these
errors, and fix any you can. The next time Googlebot crawls your site, it will
note the changes and use them to update the Google index.
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Review your robots.txt file. The Test robots.txt tool lets you
analyze your robots.txt file to see if you're blocking Googlebot from any URLs
or directories on your site.
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Make sure that the URLs haven't been blocked with
meta tags.
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Review your site structure and make sure that it's easily
accessible. Most search engines are text-based. If you use JavaScript, DHTML,
images, or rich media such as Silverlight to create navigation and links,
Googlebot and other spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
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If you have recently restructured your site or moved to a new
domain, pages that previously performed well may now rank poorly. To avoid
this, use 301 redirects ("RedirectPermanent") in your .htaccess file
to smartly redirect users, Googlebot, and other spiders. (In Apache, you can do
this with an .htaccess file; in IIS, you can do this through the administrative
console.) For more information about 301 HTTP redirects, please see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt.
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Consider creating and submitting a Sitemap. Even if your site is
already indexed, Sitemaps are a way to give Google information about your site
and the URLs you consider most important. Sitemaps are particularly helpful if
your site has dynamic content or other content not easily discoverable by
Googlebot, or if your site is new or does not have many links to it.

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