Easy Site Indexing Hack for New Folks
Published on September 22, 2016
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You have have spent hours in research and thought and finally have some content on your site. Awesome good work! We are lucky sites on the WA platform seem to index quickly with little work on our part.
Now you are wondering is your site indexed? Why can't I find my pages and posts?
There is a quick fix for this. Check your site with this Google shortcut. " Site: "
Site:yourdomainname.com
When you check your site in this way Google will display all the pages and posts it has indexed for your website.
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If you have not already verified your site with Google and Bing now would be a great time to do it. It is easy to do using the All In One SEO plugin. You can verify them both at the same time. This should help you do just that
How to Verify Websites Using All In One SEO Pack In WordPress
You can also sign up for and verify Google analytics with the AIO SEO.
Verify Google Analytics With All In One SEO
You can also easily submit an XML Sitemap using the same plugin. But I would not recommend you create and submit one until you have at least 5 or 6 complete pages and posts.
Google is like a library of information. It is searching for books to put on its shelves. If you ask for them to come and check yours out and they find short pages or posts with little or no relevant content you will have to work hard to get them to come back and check again.
You Got This! Go Get'em!
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