How can pages be found by Google? Are blog posts indexed more easily than pages?

Are blog posts indexed more easily than pages?

No.

How can pages be found by Google?

Unless you specifically block Google (at the server level) or tell Google not to index your site (via robots.txt or noindex meta tag), Google will find and index your pages automatically.

Submitting a sitemap can help Google discover more of your pages especially if you have a huge site and you don’t have a good internal linking structure. But, for the most part, Google will discover and index your pages automatically.

Example: I have written about several soccer/football games I visited, the names of the teams involved are part of the URL of those pages.
Still, when I type the name of a team I wrote about in Google, my article isn’t showing in the search results.

Note that indexing and ranking are totally different beasts.

When a page is indexed, it merely means Google has added it to its database. That says nothing about what ranking or position Google gave it: Your page could be at position #3, or #3,000,000,000.

At the top of your search results you should have seen an indication of the number of other pages other Google has indexed for the same keyword. This is typically millions, if not hundreds of millions.

So you’re competing with those millions of pages for the same search term, and if you don’t see your page on the front page, that does not necessarily mean your page has not been indexed. It may have been indexed, but ranking poorly.

In Google Search Console, your Index Coverage Report tells you how many of your site’s pages and which specific pages Google has indexed. If you don’t use GSC, setup an account immediately if you care about Google SEO.

You can also query Google publicly to find your indexed pages (though this is not always very accurate). Type the following into the Google search box:

site:example.com

(Replace example.com with your own domain, but be sure to begin with site: with no space before the domain name.)

The result you’ll get will consist of ONLY pages from your site, giving you an indication of which of your site’s pages Google has already indexed. But, again, indexing tells you nothing about how those pages are ranked.

Dear George ( @gappiah ), thanks so much for your clear reply! This was very helpful!

So as I understand, blog posts (despite the option of adding tags to your blog post with the subjects the post is about) are NOT indexed more easily than static pages? There is no need for me to replace all my static pages by blog posts?
Is there any advantage by using blog posts instead of static pages? I deliberately chose static pages so far, but maybe I could benefit more from blog entries, I’m not sure?

I will try the search to see which pages of my site Google has indexed. Is there any way to make Google index the pages it has not indexed as yet? Like a form where I could tell Google about my site so that they index the entire site?

So far, my site has used the following structure: the homepage has a menu with items such as “Traveling”, “Music”, “Football”, … Under “Football” for example, you will find a submenu “Groundhopping”. If you click that, you will find links to all static pages about football, with one static page per football game I wrote about. The names of the teams involved are always in the URL of the page.

Update: I checked and apparently only 2 pages (of which one is the homepage) of my site are indexed by Google right now. ??

Update: when I search for my site in Google using the site: prefix, now there’s 5 items showing. I don’t know why suddenly it’s showing extra pages compared to last time I searched, and why it’s still not showing all my pages. I’m confused about this.

I also did a search for site:myownoldblog.wordpress.com and there almost every single blog post I ever made is indexed in Google, often with a tag displayed next to the title and with tags listed below the blog entry. Is this because it’s a blog or did that happen over a long time to get it all indexed? I don’t know. I must say it’s not always as well indexed as it should be, as sometimes multiple blog posts are displayed beneath each other instead of showing just one entry per result in Google.