Get Your Site Crawled First
This is possibly the most common whine about doing SEO!
Given that you know that internet is going anywhere; you are possibly also aware that having a website is about as crucial today as having a cellular phone. It's a fact, whether you like it or not, this is the way things are.
At this instant motivated by the awareness of the fact that an online presence with a top search engine place in Google could dramatically transform your business, you choose to join the world of online business.
So here you are, you just have finished to build your site, and finally submitted it to Google and then… nothing happened!
What happened! So you go online and look for all the SEO help forums and sites you can find and post your thread:
“Why Google Doesn’t Index My Site?", in the end, you will too affirm that you did the whole thing, as well as submitting a sitemap, that you boast a few inbound links, etc…
Google Indexing Process
Let’s review how Google proceed to index a page or site:
- You build a site.
- You submit it to Google.
- Your site is then queued by Google to be crawled.
- Your site is crawled.
- Your website is analyzed.
- If it's considered relevant it will be indexed.
If you would like your website to be indexed, you have to foremost make sure that it gets crawled, and unless Googlebot is aware of that, it's in no way going to happen.
Maybe a good way for you to start should have been to learn a bit about Google SEO, before you started, but since you are here already, let’s see what we can do about it.
It’s All About Crawling
Googlebot travels across the internet by followings links from different websites it knows until it discovers fresh or new content. Logically, if your website is not linked by other crawled websites, Googlebot will never be able to notice you, unless of course you make a decision to sent a submission request.
Sure you can do that, yet it's not a great way out. If you consider just how many new sites are created each and every day, not even taking into consideration the billions of pages that are updated, let me tell you right now that the waiting list is going to be very long…
Just for your information, here’s the priority order in which Googlebot crawls sites:
- Fresh content from authority sites.
- Fresh content from other sites.
- Random internet crawling.
- Submission requests.
So by submitting your site for inclusion, you kind of come last on the list… in truth it may possibly take months literally!
Helping Googlebot
Googlebot behaves a lot like human beings, it doesn’t like to be told to do something, but rather do thing its own way, that is finding content by itself.
When you are crawled, generally except if you have done something genuinely wrong, it's very easy to be indexed.
The easiest method for Googlebot to find you is to go where it likes to crawl!
- Wordpress blogs.
- Authority websites.
- Important webpages.
As for your Sitemap, it's just a tool used to help Googlebot know which pages you'd appreciate it to crawl. Bear in mind, it's just a proposition and doesn't warrant at all that Googlebot will crawl all the pages of your sitemap or index them.
In Conclusion
Remember, there’s a huge difference between having a page crawled and being indexed.
If you are really serious about getting an online presence on Google, I strongly recommend you to attend some kind of SEO training course, even free ones, just to make sure that you get at least the basic knowledge and understanding of what it takes to be successful online.