Loading ...Having your site included in Google’s search results is free. You don’t even have to submit your site because Google is fully automated and used software that crawl the World Wide Web looking for sites to add to their index. However adding your site reassures you that you are now part of the world wide web community. There is then no chance for any of your potential customers to miss you when looking for products or services that you offer.
Most site listed in their index have not been manually submitted, but if your site offers more of a specialised content or service, you can reach a far wider audience if distribute it on Google.
Are you on their index
If you want to find out if you are listed on Google’s index you can do a site search for your URL, remember that it is possible for Google to miss out a few sites as they literally crawl billions of pages, but mostly the reasons for missing a site may be because a site is not well connected through multiple links or a site was launched after the latest spider crawl. The site may also be designed poorly or in a way that makes it difficult for crawling or a site may be temporarily unavailable when the spiders were crawling or they received an error when they did.
Typical Crawl Errors
Google’s Crawl Errors page gives details about each URL on your site that spiders attempted to crawl, but could get access in order to do so. The Mobile Crawl Error page on the other hand gives details about the problems that were encountered when crawling URLs on your mobile website.
In order to view any error, go to the Webmasters Tools Home Page and click on the relevant site, then under Diagnostics, click Crawl Errors.This will also show the type of problems encountered such a Not Found, URLs not Followed, URLs Restricted by robots.txt, HTTP errors or URL unreachable.
Fairly and Accurately
Google intent is to fairly represent all content published on the WWW and offers guides and tips in an effort to help developers build crawler friendly websites. However, Google does not guarantee that their spiders will find your pages, it is up to you to follow their guidelines and in doing so increase your chances of finding your pages in the search results.
A great way to help get our site onto Google’s search results page is to create and submit a sitemap of the pages included in your website. This will help make it easier to submit your entire list of URL’s to Google’s index, and will also help you get detailed reports regarding how visible your pages are.
Sitemaps keep Google informed regarding all your current pages and any changes or updates you make to them and they do this automatically, so you don’t have to. But, even this does not guarantee that all your pages will be crawled or indexed.
Related posts:
- Adding your site to Google
- What to do if your site is not doing well on Google searches
- Google basics for successful SEO
- See your site the way a spider does
- Streamline Your Website
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