Search engine optimization is all about being found on search engines when users make enquiries on them. If these search engines are not aware of your website, then there is practically no way your website or its content will appear on search engines.

Search engines bots are always in the habit of searching for content, and this is called crawling. They are constantly moving through known links to discover new content and websites.

That said, Google and other search engines can crawl via links to find out websites and content. But that is on a probability; we are responsible for submitour website and its content to Google.

Our focus in this training will be to submit your website to Google. We will see how you can ascertain that Google has discovered your website, How to register your website with Google Search Console, and how to submit a website sitemap via Google Search Console.

When to Submit Your Website to Google

Like I mentioned earlier, search engine bots are in the habit of crawling the web to discover new content. As such, Google and other search engines finds content and index them with the aid of web crawlers. So the job of learning content on the internet is carried out by these bots.

But to aid your content being discovered amidst millions of contents added to the internet every minute, you must submit your website to Google. This submission becomes necessary when your website is new and has bo links and when you create unique content or add content to an existing page.

This manual submission is important because it assures you that Google is aware of your content. It is important we first see how you can check if Google has discovered your website.