New site not indexed on Google yet ? Here’s what to do
One of the most popular problems among webmasters is not being able to get indexed by Google despite search engine submissions and long waiting. Google takes time to index some new sites and this can be frustrating. But most of the times, the reasons for Google not indexing your site is from your side, although not many people realize it, and hence to frequent complaint. So if you have a new website and is awaiting indexing by Google, here are a few things that you might want to consider in the first place.
Checklist for search engine indexing.
1. Check if your CMS has an opt in option where, it blocks search engines.
Well technically they shouldn’t but some CMS’s like WordPress has a default option which will be checked already where it will block all search engines from crawling the website. This is to make sure that your website is not indexed while you are only setting up the site. But when you forget to uncheck this option, the CMS adds a Nofollow meta tag to the pages whereby search engines will not crawl the site.
2. Check if you have set the correct Robots.txt
Robots.txt files are used to control (not fully though) search engines crawling the website. Make sure you have not blocked bots from crawling parts of your website.
3. Check if your servers are returning OK status
Use tools like header checker tools to ensure that your server is returning a healthy 200 OK status. Anything else should be dealt with immediately.
4. Set up a sitemap
Sitemaps does not guarantee that your site will be up on the SERPs soon, but they are a necessity. They ensure that we have a route map for the bots to follow. So set up a sitemap before even trying to get indexed.
5. If you run plugins check if they are set properly
Setting plugins like SEO plugins are good. But make sure they are set properly. Some plugins have an option to set nofollow meta tags on pages by default to avoid duplicate content issues, if you do not turn this off, it might screw up the indexing process.
I assume that you have done all the basic steps to invite search engines to your site already. Which are -
1 – To submit the website URL to Google via the submission tool.
2 – If possible, get a relevant contextual link from a good website (which has already been indexed and has good reputation).
Summary
Generally Google takes its own time to index new websites, and the best way to make sure Google indexes your site is to get a very relevant text link from a reputed site, but it isn’t easy always. But however, remember to have the basics health check done, so that when the bots are here, you have everything in place.
Good Post Mani,
here I would like to add one more thing in your list.
This is “Duplicate content”. Your new site is also not indexed in Google if you copy the contents from another sites.
I have got some clients and they had No-Indexing problem and the reason was Duplicate Contents.
Thanks Again for Wonderful Post.
Ankit
Absolutely awesome to see such good quality information on how to get a website indexed on google.
You are offering true value and many will be thanking you.
Great article!
When I start a new webpage, and want google to index it as fast as poosible, I always write some blog articles and link to the page. Google like blogs very much
my new site student-jobs.co.in is not yet indexed.
i havd followed all the things you mentioned here.
hope my site gets indexed soon
you need to build some links too, otherwise it takes a little more time for Google to find your site.
This information is very important for people who are submitting a site for the first time.
But be advised, it takes time. Your own site isn’t the only one being submitted.
From my experience, I can tell that it can take up to 1 month before you start seeing anything.
But I do admit that using Google Webmaster Tools and a site map helps a lot. Even if the site map doesn’t contain all the links, if you have a good link structure (or perhaps a not so good one), in time Google will index all your pages.
It does take ages to get a new site listed in Google – but older sites do seem to get indexed more quickly. It’s easy to say, but just keep adding the content, and it will happen, eventually!
Good post!! There are many professionals which are not clearly aware of all these functionality of a website and algorithms of the particular browser like Google. It will prove very useful for those people.
good tips, if you have a new website and its not indexed yet by google just submit it to digg or yahoo buzz and it’l be indexed in a few hours
Great article!!
Nice tips to get indexed. Thanks a lot.
Mani, i am facing this issue for my last blog, its didn’t indexed yet, first experience for me, usually all my sites indexing within hours.
Thanks for this tutorial. The CMS blocking thing is new to me though i know about wp.
Time to check my cms for any block since i got all the other checks covered and yet no index for my new site
How we can indexed and cached the site without submitting any link in the web and without submitting in google webmaster tool. How the google know that our site is present on the web.
What are the techniques that google find our site without any submission.
Mani sir I am waiting for your reply.
Thanks
thank you so much!!!
My site vidsbank.com is not indexing by google what should to do?
nice article! read the whole article very impressive.Some great advice there
Social Bookmarking is good, I find Digg works very well.
Karthik niccccccccccc job
You post sounds great.. Very unique information you’ve posted.. Good job done..
My website is not being indexed by google at all and it has been a week now. Is it possible that my domain was penalized before I bought it?
This can be the best to get on the stuff that will be much better to focus. Worth knowing this.
thankyou Karthik
Karthik any update
i follow all these steps and hop my site get indexed soon
It’s actually a nice and helpful piece of information. I’m glad that you simply shared this helpful information with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thanks for sharing.
i like you post so much actually i have a new website and still it’s not indexed i’m waiting
Have you gotten a link from a good source yet?
I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES
My site’s URL (web address) is: syedmuhammadhassan com
Description (including timeline of any changes made):
on 7th of october 2011 my website is completely out of index. even i am unable to find a single page. i have never done any black hat, there is not error or warning in my webmaster massage. Can any body help me to restore?
Thankyou bro for the post . really its very helpful, but i have a problem bro. I have made a website which is well organised with content titles, meta tags and keywords. It is not blocked by any robots.txt . i have made the site simply by using html , though whats wrong with the search engines . they are not listing my site even though if i type my domain name. any solutions !!!!!!
This is really great, i double checked, and now i think i did everything ok.. it says OK in google webmasters
thanks!
Good list for beginners
How to deal with a problem when almost 90% of a site is already indexed and you new blog posts are not being indexed for unknown reasons. Even the site a have good sitemap and robots.txt. Any solution in this case?
very very useful. thank you for your wonderful tips.