Website not found on Google

  • I created a website a few months ago, however, when I enter the company name in Google, the website doesn’t appear. The only options I see are the company Facebook page, Companies House and FreeIndex, but no mention of the website itself.

    I must add here that I am a complete novice with website building so it’s probably something I have/haven’t done.

    I have also installed Yoast plugin for SEO but as this was a while ago, I can’t remember how to use it…..I did say I was new!

    Any help/advice would be appreciated.

    Thank you
    Louise

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Have you set up your site through Google Webmaster Tools?

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

    verify your site, sumbit your sitemap, and make sure it’s getting crawled and indexed.

    Thread Starter louise2112

    (@louise2112)

    I have just visited the link you sent and have added the website. It says at this moment in time I cannot make any crawl/index editing and to come back later. Surely this is because my site is new and has not yet been crawled and I already know it’s not being visited because nobody can find it. How do I get it to be visible when somebody enters the web address in Google?

    thank you.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Give google a bit of time to crawl and index your site. It may take a few days.

    One trick: use the “fetch as google” link over on the left. Put in the top level of the site and tell it to index the whole site.

    I don’t really know if that speeds up anything, but at least it lets you feel like you did something.

    Did you submit a sitemap?

    I can recommend https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ for sitemap generation.

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