Diane covered your question very well, you have to love these WA members.

Joe

Great question and great answer

Hi - are you talking about indexing or ranking? They are two different things.

Indexing simply means that Google has found your post, and it is now in its search engine. If you write your posts through Site Content, then you get an email when they are indexed. This typically takes from a couple of hours to a couple of weeks. Re-writing them will not change anything as regards indexing.

Ranking means that Google has decided whereabouts in its search engine results pages it is going to put your post. It could be page 1, it could be page 97. You don't get notified when you are ranked.

Ranking changes constantly for a new website, and can go up or down. If you re-write a post that is ranking highly, it could drop lower in the results. You won't know unless you search for it.

It can take a few months, it depends on lots of different factors. A big one is the age of your site and how consistently you post on it.

Great question, great answers

Ranking can take from days to many months. It depends on many factors including your actual niche, site trust etc..

Keep writing more content and see what happens.
You may find that rankings will occur quicker now.

All the best. Jim

Hello Byron,

There are many steps before an article starts ranking on Google. First of all, your website needs to be found by Google. This is called indexing and can take up to a few weeks. You will get an email when it happens. After that, each article also needs to be found individually by Google. I think the notification you got is for the post being indexed (the search engines are now aware that the page exists).

Ranking happens much later and depends on lots of different things. The article must be completely original and ideally at least 1000 words. The age of your website also plays a part and how many articles you have altogether. It can easily take six months before you really see any progress when you would have 40 to 50 articles.

Getting ranked on Google will take time! There are - literally - millions of individual pages on Google's database. To get ranked is usually a long, hard process. Google has about 200 algorithms to rank a post (from a content quality, content length, page speed, social signals, secured sites HTTPS vs. HTTP, quality backlinks to name a few).
https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors

As others on this platform will tell you, it can (and often does!) take months - sometimes years - to get to a point where you are ranked on the critical first page on Google, for your particular niche product/service.

I hope this helps,

Ferra

Hi Byron. Sometimes just create good content, focus on writing a regular post, and keep learning. Florentino

As Dom mentions, you do not need to worry about this figure. It's purely based on content type.

Hey Byron, according to Aleh Barysevich of Search Engine Journal (https://www.searchenginejournal.com/xml-sitemap-best-practices/237649/) section 11 - you can ignore that metric - Google says it's a 'bag of noise'

Hi Byron! Check this out: What is a sitemap and why is important when you make SEO for a WordPress website? Cheers,
Florentino

type sitemap into the search box at the top of your screen - plenty of training in there or you could watch this webinar from Jay (magistudios). CASE STUDY: Building Out Your Website Framework i recommend you watch the whole thing but you could go from around 30 minutes in and watch from there - that'll show you what you need to know

should be realtively easy with all in one seo plugin now hiaving hte sitemap enabled as standard...
hover over your all in one seo in the top left menu and click on xml sitemap
at the top click on generate sitemap
then goto search console and down the left is the add sitemap
just add sitemap.xml to the url shown and hit enter
and it should be done
good luck
phil