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A prerequisite to indexing.) In my experience, unless you have a large website, it rarely takes more than a week or two. But don’t worry if it takes a bit longer; it’s perfectly normal. Why isn’t Google indexing my website? Google won’t always index all of the URLs you submit. Although there are many reasons this can happen, here are a few of the most common: 1. You’ve blocked crawling Robots.txt is a text file that tells Google which URLs they can and can’t crawl. For example, this robots.txt file blocks Google from crawling all pages on the website: User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: / Google will sometimes index URLs even if they can’t crawl them, but it’s quite rare.

Preventing crawling also stops Google from obtaining much information about indian phone number the page in question, so it probably won’t rank even if it’s indexed. This is another reason to sign up and submit your website through Google Search Console. It actually tells you if pages are excluded from indexing due to crawl blocks in the Coverage report. Here’s how to get to it: Log in to Google Search Console Choose the correct property Click “Coverage” on the left menu From here, toggle the “Excluded” tab only and check for these three issues: Blocked by robots.txt Submitted URL blocked by robots.txt Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt 2. You’ve noindexed important pages If there’s a meta robots tag or x-robots-header on your page with “noindex” in the content attribute, Google won’t index it. If Google has crawled your website already, you can check for pages excluded because of noindexing in the Coverage report.



Just toggle the “Error” and “Excluded” tabs, then check for these two issues: Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’ Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag If Google hasn’t crawled your website yet, or you just want to keep an eye out for rogue “noindex tags” in the future, sign up for Ahrefs Webmaster Tools (AWT) and run a free website crawl using Site Audit. This checks your site for 100+ common SEO issues, including noindexed pages. 3. You have low-value pages Google is unlikely to index pages that don’t hold much value for searchers. In a tweet from 2018, Google’s John Mueller suggests that your website and content should be “awesome and inspiring” for it to be indexed. We never index all known URLs, that’s pretty normal. I’d focus on making the site awesome and inspiring, then things usually work out better.