Steps to Get Your Website on Google
Step 1: Go to the Google search console website and click “start now”.
Step 2: Sign in with only that Gmail account in which you want to track your website’s data.
Step 3: After signing in, this box will appear:
- Enter your domain name to which your website is connect.
- In “Domain” you should only enter your domain part excluding http protocol ie. “abcd.com” and in “URL Prefix” you should enter your domain with protocol ie. https://abcd.com.
- In our case our domain is https://coding4u-project.vercel.app.
Step 4: After that a box will appear for verification process.
- There are various options from which you can verify your website.
- The purpose of this verification is to know that you are the owner of this domain or any other third person.
Step 5: In our case we have selected verification through html tag. We will be given an html tag which we need to copy and paste in our website’s head tag.
Step 6: After making changes and adding that meta tag to your website’s head tag click on verify button. You will be redirected to your website’s property in google search console.
Step 7: Now enter your root domain or url ie. “abc.com” in the search bar on the top and press enter. In our case our domain is https://coding4u-project.vercel.app.
Step 8: Information regarding that url will appear there. It will tell you that “URL is not on Google” and page is not indexed. Click on the “Request Indexing” button in the right side.
Step 9:. After that a pop up will appear telling that “Testing if live URL can be indexed”.
Step 10: Be patient, Indexing can take a lot of time, some hours or even some days for new websites. In our case it took some time to index our homepage url. You can now see that “URL is on Google” which means that google has successfully crawled and indexed our url.
Step 11: You should make a sitemap and sitemap that too in search console.
A sitemap is an xml file containing all the urls of your website including your homepage url. Although google only recommends websites with a large number of pages to make and submit sitemap but it is a good practice to do, so we are submitting a sitemap.
Our sitemap looks like this:
You have to submit the url of your sitemap in the sitemaps option available in the left sidebar of google search console:
- Under the heading “Add a new sitemap” you should enter your sitemap’s url and submit it.
- Now, google can take some time to fetch your sitemap, but generally it take some minutes to do so.
- If your sitemap is not fetched then you can see under the “status” as “Couldn’t Fetch”.
If your sitemap is successfully fetched then you would see the following changes telling that sitemap is successfully fetched with over 29 pages discovered in it.
How to get your website on Google
To get your website on Google, you should first purchase a domain name and hosting server, and then transfer your files to the server. After that when your website is live on the domain you should submit your website to the Google search console.
Google Search Console is a free web service that helps you monitor and improve your website’s performance in Google Search. It can help to:
- See how your website is performing in Google Search: Search Console shows you how many people are searching for your website, which keywords they’re using, and how often your website is appearing in search results.
- Identify and fix technical issues on your website: Search Console can help you identify and fix technical issues on your website that may be preventing it from being crawled or indexed by Google.
- Submit your sitemap and individual URLs for crawling: You can use Search Console to submit your sitemap and individual URLs for crawling, which can help Google discover and index your website more quickly.
- Receive alerts about important changes to your website’s performance: Search Console can send you email alerts when there are important changes to your website’s performance, such as new crawl errors or warnings.