Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Why is my website not showing in Google search?


Check your site is in the Google index
·         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.
·         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.
·         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
·         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.
·         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.
·         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.
·         Make sure that the URLs haven't been blocked with meta tags.
·         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.
·         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.
·         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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