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13 Steps to Index Your First Blog by Google

12 Steps to Index Your First Blog by Google

It's exciting to write and post your first blog post. You've finally got your website up and running and are ready to show off your work.

But all that work and excitement won't help if Google doesn't know your content exists.

What is going on?

To let Google know you have a new website and are making useful content, you need to take a few key steps. And you can do this by doing certain things, like getting Google to search your site.

Keep reading to find out how to get your name indexed and your first blog post seen by billions of people.

What does it mean to index?

When Google or another search engine analyzes your website, it adds the pages to its collection of search results. This lets people find you when they look for you. They'll type in a term, and Google will try to match it to related information, which, hopefully, will be on your website.

So, indexing is the process of finding and organizing online content so that a search engine can find the right results for a term.

You can wait for search engines to find your website on their own, which could take weeks or months. But it's better if you actively scan your site and take other steps to make sure people can find your information.

By allowing your website to be indexed, you make it easier for people to find your first blog post. This means more visitors, more sales, and more interaction.

13 Steps to Get Google to Index Your Site and Show Your Blog Posts

The good news is that it's not too hard to get your website indexed if you know what to do. And that's why this post is helpful. I'll tell you how to get your site indexed. And a few more tips to make sure your blog post is easy for Google to find.

1. See if Google has already added your site to its index.

You should see if Google has already listed your page. To do this, just type site:yourwebsite.com into your search bar and hit enter.

If you see a list of pages, it means that Google already knows about your name. You'll also find out how many of your pages Google has crawled and stored.
 

12 Steps to Index Your First Blog by Google

If you don't see any changes, move on to the next steps.

2. Make a sitemap

To get your site indexed, you need to make a sitemap.

The most important pages on your name are listed in an XML index. And it's made with XML, which stands for Extended Markup Language.

This makes it easy for search engines to figure out what your pages are about and show the right ones when people look for something online.

I recommend that you download an SEO tool if you want to make a website quickly. When you add an app for a tool like AIOSEO, your XML sitemap will be made for you immediately. You don't even have to do anything extra to make sure this process is taken care of.

If you have a WordPress site, you should know that WordPress makes a homepage for you immediately. Add sitemap.xml/ to the end of your URL to find out. For instance, yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml/.

This doesn't always work, though, so you should use a tool to make your XML index.

Lastly, if you know how to code, you can add some PHP code to your site by hand to make a website.

3. Send Google your sitemap.

Once you've made your sitemap, it's time to send it to search engines to be indexed.

Go to Google Search Console (GSC) and sign in to do this. If you haven't already, sign up.

The sidebar has a part called "Indexing," which is where "Sitemaps" can be found.

12 Steps to Index Your First Blog by Google

Under "Add a new sitemap," you can enter your website and click "Submit."

You've already started the process to get Google to list your site.

Now, let's look at some other ways to make sure search engines can find, understand, and organize your pages.

4. Get rid of the No Index Tags

You might have put a NoIndex tag on your page. This is an HTML element or meta tag that tells search engines not to read your page.

You can look for the meta name="robots"> tag in the source code of your page. If it has a property that says "noindex," you should change it so Google knows that this page should be in its search results.

By making sure your robots.txt file is SEO-friendly, your information will be found.

5. Add links to your own content

Adding links to other pages on your site is called "internal linking." This lets search engines know which pages are similar and should also be included in their search results.

If you write a blog post about SEO, for example, you can link to other posts or pages that also talk about SEO. This will help people find more content and tell Google that your content is important and should be included in its search results.

6. Take out the "nofollow" tags from the content

If you put a "nofollow" tag on your content, Google might not be able to find it.

This tells search engines not to follow certain links, which makes it harder for them to read the page. So make sure that none of your content or pages have a 'nofollow' tag.

If you're using WordPress, you can just hover over a link while changing a page or post to see if 'nofollow' is turned on. You can also use Google Search Console or an SEO tool like Ahrefs or Semrush to find pages with the 'nofollow' property.

7. Look for crawl blocks in robots.txt

The robots.txt file also called the robots exclusion standard, is a text file that tells search engines which pages they shouldn't read.

You can check your robots.txt file to make sure there isn't a line that tells Google not to crawl certain parts of your site.

If you do, just take out that command and submit your page for crawling again in GSC.

This is how it will look if it is blocked:

user-agent: *

Disallow: /

You shouldn't put any URLs that you want to be found in the "Disallow" area. If they are, get rid of them.

8. Check to see that none of your pages are "orphaned."

sites that don't have any links to them are called "orphaned pages." This makes it hard for search engines to find your material and "crawl" it.

There are a lot of ways to find out if you have any orphaned pages. AIOSEO, Screaming Frog, and others are a few of them.

You want to add links from other posts or pages to these pages to make sure they can be found.

This is an important step to make sure that Google can find and show your information in search results.

9. Add tags for structured data

Structured data makes it easier for search engines to figure out what your pages are about and how to rank them in the SERPs. For example, if you have a food blog, you can use certain style markups to tell search engines how long it takes to cook, how long it takes to prepare, what kind of food it is, and so on.

Books, movies, and other kinds of information also have organized data. By adding organized data, you'll also let Google know that you have high-quality content, which will make it more likely that your site will show up high in search results.

Schema tools are the best way to easily add structured data or schema code. This will let you focus on making content while the tool takes care of putting the right labels on your data.

10. Get your blog posts out there

You should do more than just search your blog posts; you should also market them. Share it on LinkedIn, Facebook, and groups, among other places.

And don't forget to add new things to your news list. These things bring people to your site and show that your material is good. This will also help bring more people to your posts and get them more involved.

11. Don't let bad content through or get rid of it

This tip is helpful for websites with a lot of pages, like a thousand or more. Besides following the other tips here, you should also make sure that your site doesn't have any pages that aren't very good.

This means making sure that any pages with thin content, bad links, or spam are deleted or blocked so that search engines don't include them in their results. By getting rid of low-quality sites, your good information will be found faster.

12. Look for posts and pages that are the same.

If your pages have similar information, it will take search engines longer to list them. So make sure that your website doesn't have any pages or posts that are the same.

Google also won't index a page if it's 99% the same as another. If you share your material, you might end up with more than one copy of it on the Internet. Or if someone else uses your work without permission.

This can be fixed by adding the rel=canonical tag to your source posts. This tells search engines that the material with this tag came first and is the original content. It also makes it possible to share your content and makes it less likely that your site will be punished for having similar content.

13. Get other websites to link to your content

Building backlinks is one way to help search engines figure out if your content is useful and to make sure that your pages get found.

Backlinks are links from other websites that point to your content. This tells search engines that your content is important and relevant.

This will help them move it up on the SERPs.

You can do this today by sending guest posts to sites that will print them. You can also answer questions from an expert group and work with other blogs and websites to get links back to your site.

This way, your links will show up in places that Google already crawls, and you can be sure that it will index your writing.

Conclusion

If you know what to do, getting Google to list your first blog post doesn't have to be hard or take a lot of time. Google will start to search your content as soon as you take a few simple steps and use well-known content marketing techniques, like guest posting and internal links.

If you follow the tips in this piece, your blog posts will be well on their way to showing up on Google's search engine results pages. So, put what you've learned here to use and start indexing your first blog post.

Rachid Achaoui
By : Rachid Achaoui
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