Reasons Why Your Website Is Not Yet Indexed

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Reasons Why Your Website Is Not Yet Indexed:

Reasons Why Your Website Is Not Yet Indexed

web pages already indexed:

web pages already indexed Do a “ site:http ://domain” search in Google (leave out the quotation marks ) returns a message saying “ Your search - site:http ://domain/ - did not match any documents” it means Google has not found any of your web pages yet

two possible reasons why your website is not yet indexed:

two possible reasons why your website is not yet indexed

two possible reasons why your website is not yet indexed:

1) Your Robots.txt file restricts Google bots from crawling your website. two possible reasons why your website is not yet indexed

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Google follows whatever is in your Robots.txt file. If Google sees User-agent : * Disallow : / it will not bother to crawl in your website.

Explaining the Robot.txt:

Explaining the Robot.txt User-agent: * “ user agent” means the robots (i.e. search engine crawlers or spiders) “ * ” means all. So the first line means: “All robots” Disallow: / what is disallowed to be crawled “/” means the root directory simply means: disallow all files in the entire site.

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To allow Google bots and other robots to crawl all your files in the root directory simply remove “/” the code should be: User-agent : * Disallow :

“PC Robot.txt” :

“PC Robot.txt” A WordPress plugin Allow you to edit your Robots.txt file Install the plugin and activate it

two possible reasons why your website is not yet indexed:

2) Your website is newly built. two possible reasons why your website is not yet indexed

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There are billions of web pages on the Internet. If there are no backlinks pointing to your web pages Google and search engines might take a while to discover your site. Image: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=659

Things to do:

Things to do Sign-up with Google Webmaster tools submit your Sitemap URL if website is using the WordPress platform, install an XML Sitemap plugin Add your website in major search engines

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It is recommended to do proper On-Page SEO to your web pages. When Google or other search engines crawl your website they find out as much as possible about your site.

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