How to Get Your WordPress Website Quickly Indexed by Google

WordPress is the best open-source website building program for Google SEO. Naiba here will introduce how to achieveHow to Get a New Website Built with WordPress Quickly Indexed by Google。

Preparation Before Website Indexing

If we want the website we build to be indexed by search engines like Google, we should do some detailed work from the very beginning of the setup to ensure the website contains content when Google comes to crawl. The articleWordPress Beginner SEO Setup Tutorialactually talks about things to do after the website is built. Before building the website, we should also do one thing, which isPrevent Search Engine Indexing When the Website is Not Fully Built. Using WordPress is very simple; we are inInstall WordPressthere is an option. As shown in the figure below:In the above image, check the option to suggest search engines not to index this site. This way, search engines like Google will not crawl and index your website. When our website is fully built, simply go to Settings > Reading, then uncheck this option to stop blocking indexing, allowing Google to normally index your website.

Let Google index your website

When your website is fully built and you have disabled the visibility to search engines feature, we can start letting search engines like Google crawl and index your website. The specific operation method is as follows: 1. Submit your website sitemap to major search engines. If you don't have a sitemap,first read this articlecreate one, then go tomajor search engine submission portalssubmit your sitemap. 2. Register aGoogle Search Console accountand add your website to it. Usually, within a day after completing these steps, you can check whether your website is indexed by Google using the site:domain query.If after more than 3 days, Google still hasn't indexed your website, then you need to perform the following checks:

1. Whether you forgot to enable the option to be visible to search engines;
2. whetherrobots.txt fileis blocked;
3. Whether the website server is blocking search engine crawlers (e.g., firewall blocking; you can use search engine crawl testing tools to determine, or installspider logging pluginto see if there are logs.)
4. Whether the website content is not yet fully developed (e.g., only the website is installed with no content filled, the homepage is empty, just a hello world post)

It is quite simple for a WordPress website to be indexed by Google. Basically, after you submit the sitemap address, Google spiders will crawl your website 24 hours a day. To improve Google SEO, you also need to regularly fill the website with valuable content to gain search engine rankings and more traffic.