Learn how to find if your site is in Google search results already, and if it’s not, how to get it included.
To add your content to Google search, use their content submission tool: http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/
You understand more about robots.txt files, check out this Help Center article:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449
You can read more about our reconsideration process here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843
Learn more about creating great sites that perform well in Google search results at Webmaster Academy:http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=checklist.cs&tab=1095542
More videos: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Google Webmasters: http://www.google.com/webmasters
Video Transcript:
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Jen Lee: Hello, I’m Jennifer and I work on Google search quality team. A really common
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question we hear from new site owners is, “How do I get my site to show up in Google
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search results?” Well, the good news is, Google has likely already found your new content.
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You can easily determine if Google is displaying your site in our search results by doing what
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we call a site search. To do this, from a Google search bar, type the word site colon
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and your domain name without any spaces. If something comes up then congrats! You’re in
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Google search results. If there are fewer pages displaying than what you have in your
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site, make sure we can find and crawl your content and that it delivers value to users.
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It could also be that we just haven’t discovered those pages yet. In which case, your best
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bet is to be patient. We’ll likely pick up on the change soon. If you’d like to expedite
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this process, you can add your content to Google through our tool at Google.com/submityourcontent.
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If, on the other hand, nothing at all is coming up in your site search, there could be a number
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of things going on. One of the more common causes of this is your site could be blocking
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our crawlers by what’s called a robots.txt file. You can read more about this at our
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help center resources. If you’ve recently purchased your domain, it might not be performing
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well because it formally contained spamming or problematic content. If you believe this
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could be the case, you’ll want to log in to web master tools, add and verify your new
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site, then file a reconsideration request noting this information. If your site is in
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our search results but pages aren’t performing as well as you’d like, keep in mind that Google
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discovers new pages on your site just as users do; by following links from page to page.
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That means, the easier you make it for users to navigate your site, the easier it is for
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Google to discover its content. Adding a navigational bar or a menu to your site is a popular and
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clean way to improve site navigation. You can always find more information by checking
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out our user forums and our extensive help center materials. Thanks for watching.
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