How To Submit a URL or Website to Google Search Console (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Your website development is completed as well as you launched your website on a new domain. But your website is not showing up on the search engine results pages. Until the search engines like Google know about your website existence.

Do you know, why Google don’t know about your website existence ?

Let’s have a quick view “how search engine works” guide.

Google collects all the information about the webpages in the search index. And the search index is a library room where all the information are available. If your website is not available in the Google library, then users can’t able to find your website in the search engine result pages. Your website should be crawled by Google crawler and include your webpages in its index queue.

In this article, you will know how to submit a website to Google search engine.

Do you add manually a new URL to Google ?

Submitting a website isn’t required for a site to appear in the Google library or index. But, if you submit the website then there is more chance to appear in the Google’s index.

Google only need to know about your website existence. If your website is linked to other sites on the web then Google will find and index your site.

But you can speed up the indexing by manually submitting a new website manually in the Google search console.

How long does Google take to index the website’s URL?

There is no time limit to index the website or URL in the Google. If you have not submitted the new URL to the sitemap then it takes much more time to crawl the pages. However, when you submit the new URL to the sitemap then it takes less time.

Google can find website’s content on its own but it may take long time to index. However, it takes just a few minutes when you manually inform Google.

How to Submit a New URL to Google

If you have a new website to include in the index as fast as possible. Then, You can check it by using URL Inspection Tool.

Now, let’s have a look:

How to Check if a URL is Indexed

You can check whether the website is indexed or not by using the search operator “site:”

Example: site:eblogtalk.com

Have a look on the number of indexed URLs.

Take another example: site:xawcesss.com which is not indexed on Google.

When you have to submit a URL?

When you launched a new website or change its domain name then you only have to submit the URL to the Google search console. If you already have old website then there is no need to index the domain or URL to the search console.

Sometimes, developer add the rel=”noindex” tag across the website and then the the site drop from the Google index.

Submit a URL to Google

Add an XML sitemap to Google Search Console.

Click on the the Sitemaps of Google Search Console.

Find the ‘Add a new sitemap’ box. Paste your site’s XML sitemap extension.

Once done, Check list of submitted XML sitemaps, Status, and Discovered URLs:

How to Avoid Website Pages Getting Deindexed from Google?

We have done how to index your website by Google search engine. But it is also important to identify the reasons why the website is de-indexed.

The deindex issue is rare. But when this happen, the reason is one of the below:

Blocked With ‘NoIndex’

The accidental and common reason of deindex is that developer left the ‘noindex’ directive while updating the website code.

It is either noindex meta tag or a ‘noindex’ header in the HTTP request. You can remove this noindex directive, and resubmit the website.

Manual Action

Manual penalty, sometimes you find that the website has been deindex because you are violating the Google’s webmaster guidelines.

To avoid this penalty, don’t violate the webmaster guidelines.

Glossary of Terms

• Google Search Console: This is Google free tool that allows to manage the site’s performance on the search engine. Earlier, it is known as Google Webmaster Tools.
• Google’s Index: The web pages that are available in the library of Google.
• Inbound Links: Baclinks from other sites to your site.
• Internal Linking: Linking between the two pages on the same website.
• Site: Search Operator: It is a way to know the list of URLs that are available on the Google for particular domain.

Submitting your website or webpages to Google doesn’t take long time. You only need to follow the above steps and wait for the URL to index.

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