Spot and Fix Indexation Issues

How To Get Your Website
Indexed in Search Engines
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Why Site Indexed is important ?
• The whole point of having a website is to make it visible across the
web and appeal to target visitors.
• If your website is not indexed, it won’t appear in the search results
and this defeats the purpose for which it was created in the first
place.
• There might be a lot of reasons behind search engines not indexing
your website.

Common Problem Related To Site Indexing
The checklist of common problems related to site indexing and the
solutions to fix them are
• Robots.txt
• Meta Tags
• Sitemap Errors
• No Incoming Links
• Bad Links & Google Reconsideration Request
• Malware Ridden Websites
• Fetch as Google

1. Robots.txt
➢ Robots.txt, is the first thing that a search engine bot looks up
when visiting your website. It is used by webmasters to provide
instructions to the search engine bots visiting a site.
➢ If your robots.txt file carried instructions to discourage search
engine crawling, your site may not get indexed. You can check
your site’s robots file by adding /robots.txt at the end of your
domain name.
➢ You can fix this issue easily by removing the ‘/’ from the
command. You can use the robots.txt file effectively to de-index
specific folders in your site.

2. Meta Tags
➢ It is a common practice by webmasters to use meta ‘robots’ tag to
prevent search engine bots from crawling a particular web page.If
a particular page in your website doesn’t get indexed, check its
source code for this meta tag.
➢ This tag will prevent the web page from being crawled by the
search engine bots. Some WordPress themes incorporate this
meta tag by default.
➢ If your WP site has indexing problems, it is worth checking the
theme header for this tag. Once this tag is removed from the
source code, search engine bots can crawl the particular web
page.

3. Sitemap Errors
➢ A sitemap (XML or HTML) provides a search engine robot with
the list of URLs to be crawled in your website.
➢ If for some reasons the sitemap in your website is not
automatically updated, search engine bots may some time to
discover those web pages and this would cause delay in
indexing.
➢ You need to check out the Webmaster tool for issues related to
the sitemap.
➢ The Sitemap Details page will inform you about the errors in it.
Once the errors are fixed, you can generate a new xml
sitemap for your site and upload it in the root for your website.

4. No Incoming Links
➢ This issue is common in websites that are new to the web. If
your website doesn’t have any incoming links from other
websites, it might take a while for Google to find your site.
➢ If you wish to get your site indexed soon, you may have to
build some backlinks manually. Backlinks from high PR
websites will provide more link weightage to your website
thereby helping it get indexed soon.
➢ Submitting your site to Google+ will earn you an incoming link
and help your site get discovered by the search engine bots.
➢ You can also submit your site URL to Google through your
Webmasters tool. These methods will significantly improve the
chances of getting indexed by Google.

5. Bad Links & Googlen Reconsideration
Request
➢ It is important for a site owner to constantly assess the quality of
incoming links. The inbound links to your website should not
violate Google’s guidelines on link quality.
➢ You can detect these bad links through your Google Webmaster
Tools. If your site has too many bad links, it will be de-indexed by
Google and other search engines.
➢ If by any chance your website has been de-indexed due to this
issue, you need to disavow these bad links completely and make
sure that your site no longer violates the guidelines.
➢ Once this is fixed, you need to submit a reconsideration request
to Google through your Webmaster tools.

6. Malware Ridden Websites
➢ Websites infected with malwares may get disappeared from
search results very soon. The silver lining here is that you can find
the issue before your site gets de-indexed.
➢ Google Webmaster Tools will issue a warning that your site has
been compromised. Once you’ve discovered the issue, you can
remove the malware and enhance your site’s security.
➢ You can also submit a reconsideration request if your site has
already been de-indexed.

7. Fetch as Google
➢ If you believe your website doesn’t have any of the above issues,
here’s a simple way to get your web page indexed.
➢ Log onto your Google Webmaster Tools account and click on
‘Fetch as Google’ link under ‘Crawl’. Enter your URL and submit to
index. You may see the page indexed on Google within seconds.

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