Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 3:35:18 GMT
Is your site not appearing on search engines? Often when the site is not found on the web, we immediately think that the problem is due to the lack of positioning, but in reality it could concern indexing. This is an important difference, which many still confuse: an incorrectly positioned site is still indexed, so by searching it on the search engine you can find it. A site that is not indexed, however, is totally absent from the search engine archives. In this article we'll look at what some of the most common indexing errors are, why they happen, and what you can do to fix them. But first, let's make sure we're on the same page and fully understand the indexing jargon. What are crawling and indexing? The activity of a search engine is divided into three macro phases: SCAN (crawling): the engine uses a spider, i.e. an automated software that scans all the pages of the sites on the web.
INDEXING the pages crawled by the spider are evaluated and added Venezuela Phone Number to the search engine index. POSITIONING (ranking): with the help of the algorithm, the search engine renders the page and, analyzing both the textual content and the visual layout, decides in which position to make the site appear among the search results. image.png When a user asks a query, he asks the search engine to return the most relevant pages included in the index as an answer. Since there are often millions of relevant pages, the ranking (positioning) algorithm does its best to sort the position of the pages so that the user sees the most relevant results first. This is a video from Google that explains the search process in greater detail. How to check that you are indexed on search engines? The first thing to do is to understand if there really is a technical problem in the indexing of the site. How to do? Just turn off SafeSearch and type site: domainname.tld (of course, change domainname.tld to your actual domain). This will show you all the pages on your domain that Google has indexed. image.png The site is not present in the index.
If you don't find any results it means that the site is not present in the index. How long have you been publishing the site? The search engine may take some time to index the pages! As Google Support recommends: Wait at least a week after submitting a sitemap or requesting indexing before assuming there is a problem. If the problem is not the "time factor" and you are sure you have implemented all the best practices to help the search engine find your pages (use of static and speaking URLs, complete navigation system, interlinking strategy between pages of the site, implementing a sitemap.xml and sending an indexing request for the site's home page) could be useful in diagnosing any indexing problems. The second step, therefore, can be to investigate the Google Search Console Coverage report, in order to obtain more accurate information on the performance of the site. Each page can have one of the following status values: Valid. The pages have been indexed. Valid with warnings. The pages have been indexed, but they have an issue that the user should be aware of.
INDEXING the pages crawled by the spider are evaluated and added Venezuela Phone Number to the search engine index. POSITIONING (ranking): with the help of the algorithm, the search engine renders the page and, analyzing both the textual content and the visual layout, decides in which position to make the site appear among the search results. image.png When a user asks a query, he asks the search engine to return the most relevant pages included in the index as an answer. Since there are often millions of relevant pages, the ranking (positioning) algorithm does its best to sort the position of the pages so that the user sees the most relevant results first. This is a video from Google that explains the search process in greater detail. How to check that you are indexed on search engines? The first thing to do is to understand if there really is a technical problem in the indexing of the site. How to do? Just turn off SafeSearch and type site: domainname.tld (of course, change domainname.tld to your actual domain). This will show you all the pages on your domain that Google has indexed. image.png The site is not present in the index.
If you don't find any results it means that the site is not present in the index. How long have you been publishing the site? The search engine may take some time to index the pages! As Google Support recommends: Wait at least a week after submitting a sitemap or requesting indexing before assuming there is a problem. If the problem is not the "time factor" and you are sure you have implemented all the best practices to help the search engine find your pages (use of static and speaking URLs, complete navigation system, interlinking strategy between pages of the site, implementing a sitemap.xml and sending an indexing request for the site's home page) could be useful in diagnosing any indexing problems. The second step, therefore, can be to investigate the Google Search Console Coverage report, in order to obtain more accurate information on the performance of the site. Each page can have one of the following status values: Valid. The pages have been indexed. Valid with warnings. The pages have been indexed, but they have an issue that the user should be aware of.