Using Google Search Counsel as a Google Indexing Tool

bysammyallen

301 followers

3 years ago

I found out something useful today when I was searching on Google and wanted to share it with you guys.

I'm sure most of the Wealthy Affiliate veterans know this already but for any other newbies like me, check it out. It might help you.

Today I looked at Site Content and found that 8 of my posts were still not indexed.

This didn't make sense to me as many of these were written way before others that were indexed.

I went on Google Search Console to try to see if all my site maps were logged and they were.

Then I saw a field at the top of the screen that said "Inspect any URL" and using that I was able to enter each one of my non-indexed URLs.

In doing so, I was able to verify that 5 of these items were in fact indexed.

With the 3 that were NOT indexed, Google gave me the option to "request indexing for a URL"

I did this for all 3 URLs and was told after submitting each that it was "added to a priority crawl queue"

Thank you Google, I feel important.

These are the steps I took:

1. Go to Google Search Console, there is a field on the top that says “Inspect any URL”.

2. Enter the exact name of the item you are trying to get indexed. For several of them, Google did not accept my URL. Make sure that you have entered the website correctly and try it with www or without. Several of them rejected my entry because I put www and several of them rejected it because I didn't. Don't ask me why. That's way above my web knowledge.

3. If your URL is already indexed, a box will pop up with green check marks telling you the good news.

4. If not, then you will have the option to "request indexing for a URL"

5. Select this. Wait a minute. Then a box will come up saying you have been added to the priority crawl queue.

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I hope that helps.

You can also check if you content is indexed by going up to the URL field on your browser and typing "site: (the full URL of your site)"

This will show you everything that has been indexed for your site by Google.

If you have any questions or if anything I said wasn't clear (I tried, I'm not the most tech savvy but there you go), please let me know.

Sincerely,

Sammy