Now, you’ve just published a well-built masterpiece of a WordPress website. You’ve strongly unleashed your entire creative and technical prowess on it, and all the whistles and bells have been integrated. Excellent job! Your brand-new site is now live and you’re thinking “Hey, let me Google it out to learn how it’s doing in search engines.”

Hoops… You can’t find your site in SERPs!

Not to worry! It’s not you alone. A common issue with most webmasters launching a new website is that their websites don’t get found immediately on top pages of the search results for strategic keywords.

But congrats on stumbling on this tutorial because today, you’ll learn what to do as quickly as possible to see your brand-new site appear on the first page of Google, Bing, and other major search engines in less than a week. Here is what to do first if your website has not yet been found in SERPs.

First, Get Rid of Blockages

If your website has not yet been found by Google, it could be that there are some components asking Google not to index your site.

For instance, Robots.txt files can prevent Google bots from indexing your site. It could possibly be due to the fact that you forgot to remove the Robots.txt files after completing your website setup. And in that case, you’ll need to have your settings reconfigured in order to enable search engine bots to index your website properly.

Since the GSC is integrated with a Robots.txt tester tool, you can ascertain whether the Robots.txt file is well-configured to allow proper indexing of your website. You need to be sure if your blog is blocking web crawlers.

If you’re a WordPress site owner, some features (if turned on) can cause improper crawling of your site. To ensure you’re not discouraging search engines from crawling your website, go to Settings, click on Reading, and ensure the search engine visibility box is left unchecked.

Other elements obstructing search engine bots from indexing your site include frame and flash codes which aren’t search engine friendly.

Once you’re done getting rid of those blockages, search engine crawlers will find your site quickly and index it for ranking. Having removed all blockages, it’s time to set up your site to seriously begin ranking on top pages of the search results. And you have three crucial things to do for this to come up.