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Why is My Web site Not Turning up on Google?

By: Shanti Slain

This is a quite popular question asked largely by those who find themselves only starting out. Creating a website is merely fifty percent of the task; you need to get people to visit it. If your website isn’t turning up on Google, how do you do this? Should you type in your site URL in Google’s search bar (example: yourdomain.com) and it's not listed in the results page it indicates your internet site is not indexed and there are some things you should do for it to be displayed.

For starters you need to see if your content is in Flash. Flash can make it difficult to lookup, search engines do not like it, and let’s be frank, neither does anyone else.

Afterwards, you need to ensure you’ve got the fundamentals covered inside the navigation bar. Have you got a “Home,” “About Us,” “Reciprocal Links,” and “Sitemap” page? These pages are important to have, but the most important one that you definitely require to get your website showing up on Google would be the sitemap page. A sitemap is actually a page that consists of a list of all of the pages on your site. It can help people going to your website find their way around, and helps the search engine crawlers to access all pages of the site so that all your pages can be indexed. A sitemap is rather simple to make on your own, and free sitemap makers can also be found online.

Following this point, it is very probable that your site is indexed.It will however, take several days to go through so don’t panic if it instantly isn't displayed on Google. You need to be willing to wait; try typing it in Google’s search bar once again in several days.

The last thing you want to do (if it is still not showing up in a few days’ time), is go to Google’s webmaster tools and enter it to be indexed on your own. It is crucial to have a sitemap at this point so Google can index all your pages rather than just the one you enter in.

Although getting indexed in Google is a great start, I'd definitely recommend furthering your good results by having your website indexed in other search engines as well, particularly Yahoo and Bing. In the end, the greater amount of people that wind up on their way to your web site, the better for you and your website!

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