We are often asked the most simple, yet pertinent questions.
Why is my website not in Google?
The most obvious and simple reply is - Did you submit your site to Google? But their can be many reasons why a site is not listed.
Google can and will index your site, even if you do not submit it to their search engine. But you will probably want to have a better understanding of how your site is indexed, how often and what pages are indexed, to better find the reason why your site is not visible.
(Note: A lot of our clients have assumed that all their pages will be automatically listed in Google - this is not the case.)
What does Google do when it visits my website?
Typically a search engine will complete these four steps:-
- Discovery - it will find your website.
- Crawling - it will 'crawl' your website following links to identify your web pages.
- Analysis - the search engine will analyse your content based in its own criteria
- Decide - the search engine will 'decide' whether to index your site or not based on many factors.
What should I do?
There are too many reasons to list, why a site does not show up in Google, from being blacklisted, to being so far down the ranking as to be almost non-existent.
We can help you discover why your site is not listed or why only some of your pages show up and take corrective action.
