Google Indexed My Site Already?
I woke up to an exciting email this morning from WA. My site was indexed!
In my half-asleep state, I skimmed the notice, assuming it was for my JournalGenius website that I've been working on since April 26th.
Nope...
It was for my AffiliateYeti blog ... which I've only been working on for 3 days, and where I posted my first keyword-rich article YESTERDAY!
I'm not ready for it to be available to 'The Google' just yet. There's so much still to be done.
So I'm super excited, but completely freaking out at the same time!!
I've built websites for over 23 years and for most of those years, I was using WordPress. I have never in my life, been indexed by Google this fast ... let alone known when I was indexed in the first place.
This is the power of the tools and training here at Wealthy Affiliate. I'm so grateful to have stumbled across one of Eartha's videos on YouTube and ambled over here.
Now I've got a ton of work to do, but have a great Friday and an even better weekend!
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That's awesome and super congrats, Angie!
Appreciate your blog post and share, thank you.
So that you know it means that your site was found by Google and now it is a good time to start adding content if not doing so already.
However, first your posts get indexed and often days later down the line start getting noticed provided targeted keywords are searchable, new websites can rank efficiently.
But typically "authority" for a website starts to get established through time, usually the 3-6 month mark.
They fluctuate up and down the scale till Google decides where to place them.
Not all posts will get ranked, thus the recommendation to keep updating blog 2 - 3 posts a week and that's for the foreseeable future.
And just for some clarifications.
I hope this helps.
Congratulations on being indexed by Google. It's a great first step. Your next step is to write good content that gets ranked for your desired keywords/search terms.
Just so that you're clear, there's a difference between being indexed and being ranked. Indexed simply means that your website's pages and posts appear in Google's database and can be found by their URLs. This happens automatically as Googlebot crawls the web but can be speeded up by using Google Search Console. Each page and post is indexed individually. There's no such thing as "the site". It's a collection of pages and posts.
Pages and posts are ranked for particular keywords/search terms. This is what you're striving for. So that your post comes up on page 1 when someone enters that keyword/search term.
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Hi Angie,
That's great news! That's a big step moving forward for the website, and a sign of better things to come.
Now's the time to start writing more content, and publishing them. The posts may not rank right away, but they will be at some point on the search engines.
That's great to hear. Kudos to you, and keep it going.
Regards,
-Eric