A lot of people ask me many questions about Google Search indexing, how it works, how Google indexes a page etc., and I have written most asked questions below related to Google indexing. If you have any such question, then you have come to the right place because I will answer all the questions in detail and which will also help you.
Some of the questions asked are as follows:
- My website is not indexed even after 15 days and I have already written 12 articles, What can I do to index it?
- My website indexed on Google but not visible on Google Search.
- Is it okay to manually index the newly created pages rather than waiting for Google to index them?
- How to see the indexed page in Google?
- When my other pages get indexed? How to speed up the process?
- Google crawled the website via the submitted sitemap but in the index, only two pages appear how to index all content on Google search engine?
- My website published around 500 pages added daily, how do I make these pages crawled and indexed as soon as they are live?
Let’s begin with the first query “My website is not indexed even after 15 days, and I have already written 12 articles, What can I do to index it?”
If your website is new or recently you have submitted on the search console, then Google will first start discovering your page after checking your website's server, hosting location, the response time of the server, old history of the domain, etc.
After discovering, Google does not index the page immediately, sometimes before indexing the page Google wants to understands the content of the page, like is there anything wrong with the content or not, Then comes our framework sometimes the content is loaded in our website through Javascript, due to which Google needs to crawl your page again to get the actual content of the page.
Just because of these steps Google takes some time to index the new website, which is reasonable according to me.
My website indexed on Google but not visible on Google Search.
If you got the info of the page from the coverage report, then that page must have been indexed. It is a different matter that you have not removed the page with the help of the URL Removal Tool.
Otherwise, you can check whether the page index is thereby applying the “site:” command on the Google Search.
Eg: site:your-domain.com/your-page-url (Check the version that is on your website www, non-www, http, https)
Is it okay to manually index the newly created pages rather than waiting for Google to index them?
I don't think there should be an issue in getting the page indexed manually because whenever we request the manual index, Google adds that page to the crawl list so that the submitted page crawls faster than the other page, and the rest of the process remains the same.
We can also use the request index tool on an already indexed page, if we make any changes on the page, and want Google to index the new changes quickly, Yes, we can get the page crawled quickly with the help of index request.
How to see the indexed page in Google?
This one is easy, you can use these methods to check the indexed page.
- “site:” command, is useful to check the overview or for a single page.
- Valid section of the Coverage Report in the Google Search Console Tool. (all pages with details)
5) When my other pages get indexed? How to speed up the process?
This happens many times, except for the necessary page, Google indexes the low-value page, We can fix this in two ways, first, you can create a file of your particular page and submit it to Google usually know as a sitemap file or you can interlink your particular page with each other. This will make it easier for Google to find your page and the index will be quicker.
6) Google crawled the website via the submitted sitemap but in the index, only two pages appear how to index all content on Google search engine?
If you are checking the coverage report, then wait for some time, the coverage report is updated late at times, otherwise, you can check by using the 4 question’s method.
7) My website published around 500 pages added daily, how do I make these pages crawled and indexed as soon as they are live?
Google increases the crawl budget according to the number of pages available on the website, if your website publishes something which has a validity of a few days, then you can take the help of Google Indexing API.
Read more about Google Indexing API