Indexed Pages: How To Get Your Website Indexed

1. To check indexed web pages via search engine results

• Visit Google or other search engines, there in the search bar, and type your website name. Let's just take – “JanBask Digital Design” for example.

• Upon searching your website URL in the search bar, you will see some numerical alongside the “results.” These numerals tell the number of web pages Google has indexed.

If you wish to see your particular web page’s URL index status, you may go like this:

• Enter the web URL/page name – Let’s take “janbaskdigitaldesign.com/portfolio.”
• There again, you will see some numerical alongside “results.” Note that no results will show up if your web page isn’t indexed yet.

2. Checking indexed web pages via Google Search Console report

If you want detailed insight into your web pages' index status, you can take the help of Google Search Console’s – Index Coverage Status Report.

• Open your Google Search Console, click on “index,” and then on “coverage.”
• There, you will see the section of a valid page (with both with and without warning).
• If these valid pages total to any number but zero, it seems like your certain web pages are successfully indexed pages in Google.

If you are finding it hard to index the pages successfully and are stuck with “non-indexed” page status, we have compiled simple steps to submit the web pages in Google webmaster tools effectively and let your web pages be indexed by Google checker quickly.

1. Make sure your web page is included in the sitemap

Your XML sitemap is an important aspect that tells search engines which pages on your website are important.

It is not necessary to get Google indexation if you have added pages to the sitemap but not adding any important pages to the sitemap definitely means there will be no page indexed by Google.

After making the sitemap, submit it to the Google search console. You can review the sitemap status via the Sitemaps report in the Google search console.

Check the report to see if the pages you want to see indexed are added and pages you don’t necessarily want to be indexed are not added.

2. Create High-quality backlinks

It is not true that Google only crawls and indexes web pages with backlinks. It does crawl and rank the pages without any backlinks as well. But if you have high-quality backlinks, Google will see your web pages to be important and will be faster in crawling and re-crawling your pages faster than the ones who don’t have a single backlink.

The more links you will win from credible sites, the more will be your value in the search engine’s eyes.

When you will get the link from other third-party sites, the crawlers on these third-party sites will follow the link to your web page and act on indexing your web page faster.

If you have organic link-building experience, you will know how rewarding it can be to earn links from credible sources. If you don’t specialize in the game of link-building, you can create a powerful promotion strategy ahead of time. You can go like this:

• Search for the platforms that promote content syndication. Republish your freshly published content to sites like Medium to earn some effective backlinks. Websites like Medium automatically use the rel=canonical tag with which you won’t have to worry about duplicate content issues. Medium offers its import tool, with which you can import your already published content from anywhere. The tool will pull out your content with the same text formatting, headings, links, and lists. However, images won’t be automatically imported, there you will have to do a little bit of juggling to add those images manually. If you haven’t posted the images before in that content, or feel it has poor images, there you will have the chance to add new relatable & attractive images.

• You can achieve great backlinks by sharing infographics with your link to the infographic directories. The task of generating and submitting infographics to those directories may not seem to be intense but down the line, you will maximize value in the eyes of search engines.
• Generate your content on the LinkedIn pulse. Linkedin pulse is different from regular articles you write and publish on Linkedin. With LinkedIn Pulse, you can share some excerpts from your full version of the content and end it with CTAs link (redirecting to your detailed content) instructing words like “continue to read more” or “read the full version of the article here”. With this, you can quickly earn readers or further clients.

3. Be active on social media

Many of you will wonder what social media has to do with crawling and indexation since it doesn’t have a direct correlation with SEO methods.

Social media is a great tool to aware the audience about every new content that gets published. When you update links about your latest pages to the social media site coupled with some catchy caption or tagline, search crawlers will identify and get to it to speed up its indexation process.

Creating a social media action plan is effective for making web pages indexed by Google Checker rapidly. If you haven’t thought about investing in the social media action plan, this is how you can:

• Create social media accounts on popular platforms like Facebook and Twitter. If you are a B2B, you should host on LinkedIn and if you are a business that is targeting a population of 18-24 age group, there you may establish your identity on Instagram.
• Construct a powerful social media strategy for customer service by identifying what would be your routine of posting, what content would you be sharing, would you be keeping the same or different content for each social media platform or not, and much more.
• Connect with influencers who could spread positive words about your brand.
• Invest in paid ads to increase your reach to the audience.

When you will focus on sharing your pages more via social media channels, Google will see your web pages as authoritative and will quickly act to fetch and index them faster. Even your newly added pages will be indexed in a shorter timeline.

4. Run a blog

“Websites with blog section have an average of more than 434% more indexed pages”.

Google's algorithm aims at giving people recently updated and relevant content to the search users.

Thus, websites that focus on adding new content to their websites at regular intervals tend to get quick indexing perks.

For any website, blogs are the only area that can produce a variety of fresh and updated content that users are willing to see. If you aren’t actively running a blog, it is time that you should. The more high-quality and updated content in the blog section you publish, the more will be the speed of spiders to crawl your web pages and index them in Google.

If you are just beginning, you can start by curating and uploading the blog content that competitors are already publishing, this way you will triumph over consistency and will have a tight grip to continue further. Here are 6 effective tips on how to write a blog post to become a master of blogging.

Later, you can analyze and search for the competitors and their most performing blog topics to identify which topic you need to write about.

5. Block poor-quality pages from the Google index

If you have so many poor-quality web pages mentioned in the sitemap, chances are, you will face a delay in crawling of those effective and quality pages.

Having too many low-quality pages on your website will eventually reduce the number of times at which web pages are crawled and indexed.

If you feel you host too many pages with irrelevant and poor content, there you must consider either deleting them or blocking them from Google to index them.

Pages that serve no value to your audience should be:

• • Blocked via Robots.txt file when they serve zero value to the search engines
  • 301 redirected where blogs serve no greater value to the audience as well as the search engines. You can consider doing this with old blog posts that already have traffic and links.
  • Deleted 404 where pages are not providing any value to the search engines as well as the audience and also have no existing links or traffic.

• Marked for NOINDEX when pages serve value to the audience but not the search engines like landing pages or the thank you pages.
• Build powerful internal links
  

Google identifies new content by crawling your website, but if you fail to internally link your new pages, the search engines might face a hard time in crawling those new pages.

The easy-peasy way to crawl and index those newly added pages would be to internally link them to the previous pages that are easily identified by Google for indexation.

Link your newly added pages to the pages that are doing well in terms of search engine performance as well as audience reach. By doing so, Google will have an easy time fetching and indexing those newly added web pages.

To have successful internal linking, make sure your website structure is not underlooked. Make sure:

• Your website has a logical web structure and navigation scope that makes it easy to browse. Stick to a simple structure that is easy for the audience to assess.

• You have a well-planned website architecture, as apart from just humans, the crawlers will also require a website structure that is easy to skim through. Since internal links will be sending the crawlers to other parts of the websites, make sure the flow and interconnectivity between every page are systematic and understandable.

• Make hub pages to help both users and search engines to understand your site layout effectively. These hub pages will act as an index to your similar grouped pages and will help the crawlers to easily read them. You can create hub pages by – grouping the blog posts on similar topics under one hood, similar products under one section (if you are into selling of products), group related news or events (if you are into news-editorial or event management).
• Link your newly added pages towards the quality pages of your website to simplify the users and the crawlers’ tasks of processing your website.
• Make a table of contents section at the beginning of the content. The practice can be followed while writing blogs or news. You can put up a well-explanatory table of contents at the top to address the users with all the sections the following content has to offer. With this, they will reach out to the section they were wanting to learn about the most, without getting distracted by the walls of text in your lengthy blog post. This will in the background will improve your overall website structure as well internal linking process. And, crawlers will thank you for structuring your site so well and easing out their burden.