You probably won’t believe it⚡, but according to Ahrefs, 91% 📈 of all websites receive ZERO organic traffic online. Furthermore, only 9% 📉 of all websites are ranked by Google🤖 and receive organic traffic✅. I am Natalia Golenkova, US-based Digital Advisor, Google certified specialist, and Google Partner with hands-on experience in digital marketing & online security. I am often asked, “How to check if your website Is showing In Google search results?” OR “How To Fix it if your website is not showing in Google Search” It is a pleasure to share my knowledge and experience with you. Let’s find out how to resolve this ussie!
How To Check If My Website Is Not Showing In Google Search?
First of all, there’s a big difference between these two possible issues you might be facing:
- Your website is showing on Google, but it is hard to find it there
- Your website is not showing on Google search results at all?
Why My Website Is Not Showing In Google Search?
There are several reasons why your website may not be ranked by Google at all:
1. If your website was recently launched, Google robots might need more time to index it. Although it varies, it may take as little as 3–7 days and last up to several months for a website to be crawled by Google’s robots. When you publish a new blog post, webpage, or website in general, many factors determine how quickly Google will index it. For example, website popularity and website traffic, content quality and industry, overall website structure and on-page SEO attributes, and off-page SEO endeavors are taken into consideration.
2. If your website is relatively new, check if your web developers added a request (code) for search engines, not to rank a website at all, and exclude the whole website or specific pages from the ranking. It is usually reasonable when the website is under construction and is often forgotten after the launch of the website.
3. If you bought a whole business or previously used domain or proceeded with risky Black Hat SEO strategies, it is possible that Google’s guidelines were breached in one way or another, and your website was penalized by Google. It means that your website might be no longer allowed in Google index. It might be a chance that you do not know about it. For example, you might do not have a clue about it if your website was hacked, or somebody owned your domain name before you bought a domain.
How To Check If My Website Is Showing In Google Search?
Step 1. Determine if your website is indexed in Google or not!
If your website is not indexed won’t be visible in search results. So, ask Google about it straight! To do so, please follow the simple formula below:
Type in Google search bar:
site:yourdomain.com
For example:
site: dmarketergolenkova.com
Here is how it should look on Google:
If the pages from your website appear in search results – then your website has been indexed. In this case, you face a much lighter problem: Google ranks your website, but it is hard to find it because it ranks it not very high. Consider improving SEO.
If nothing appears, your website is either not indexed in Google or excluded from search results.
Step 2. Add your website to Google Search Console.
Either way, if your website is indexed or not, I highly recommend following this step. It will shed some light on “Why your website is not showing” or improve your ranking positions if your question is “Why it is hard to find my website?”.
Add your website to Google Search Console. Google Search Console is one of the most essential and valuable tools for SEO ranking. Once you add your website to Search Console, Google will tell you some beneficial things about your website, including but not limited to pointing out problems that need to be fixed.
If any penalties or other problems prevent your site from appearing in Google search results, you will know about it too.
Google Search Console
Improve your performance on Google Search Search Console tools and reports to help you measure the website’s search traffic.
Step 3. Improve your SEO ranking.
After figuring out what was holding back your website from showing on Google, it is time to improve your ranking. and to how higher! After that, it should not be hard to find your website on Google.
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Google Search Console
Creating an account with Search Console is easy and free. The only tricky bit is ‘verifying’ your website, which you must do to prove that you have rights to this domain name. ‘Verifying’ connects your website to Search Console by proving you own the website. It is a bit technical, so get in touch if you need help with this. It will take time for all of the data to start filling in and you will find out the areas for improvements and issues that need fixing.
If your website is not showing on Google at all, after creating an account in Google Search Console, you should submit your website for indexing with Google URL Inspection Tool on Google search Console as shown on the screenshot below:
Conclusion
SEO is not easy, and there are other ways to drive traffic to your website. Social Media and Pay Per Click advertising are just a few. Although, as I see it, it is a reckless business strategy to pay for something that you can receive online for free. So it is worth trying to resolve the issues that might be holding back your website from showing on google or from ranking high. Now you should be clear if your website is indexed in Google, OR it is hard to find it on Google, OR if their other problems prevent your website from being ranked on Google. Please share your thoughts with me!
FAQ
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What credentials do we need to start working
1. We need 100%: 1.1. Domain name registrar credentials (name of registrar, login, password, pin) 1.2. Hosting (it can be the same credentials as a domain registrar or separate) 1.3 MYSQL 1.4 FTP 2. It is important to provide credentials (if you have accounts): 2.1. Google my business page 2.2. Bing Places 2.3. Yelp 2.4. Social media (FB, Instagram, Twitter, any others) 2.5. Any other 3rd party services you use online on your website Please take into consideration that we can start working on the project and be responsible for your digital presence only after all the credentials are provided.
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A website is considered accessibility compliant when it is properly designed and built for people with disabilities, so people with disabilities can use them. Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including auditor, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, visual. Making the web accessible benefits individuals, businesses, and society. Although there are some difficulties in achieving 100% website accessibility compliance. You can read about website accessibility compliance on https://www.w3.org/, which is dedicated to Strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities. For more info please read our post WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY COMPLIANCE IN THE USA
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Why don't Google My Business Pages & Google Maps Listings work properly during COVID-19?
During COVID-19 pandemic Google Limited Google My Business and Google maps Listing functionality. It might seriously affect your local SEO. WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CHANGES? Review replies are now available. New user reviews, new user photos, new short names, and Q&A might be paused and will gradually return by country and business category. Google is going to publish gradually delayed user reviews and photos submitted to Google Maps. Businesses might experience publishing delays for other edit types or when contacting support about these pending edits. Delays for publication of new listings, claims, and verifications for some types of businesses to Google Search and Maps. Updated for specific industries and categories. For example, changes in April 2020 for health care providers and medical professionals. What else should I do? Goole issued really useful sources to navigate small and local businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic. Please, subscribe to Google for small business updates and read Covid-19 updated.
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