How to Make New WordPress Blog Get Indexed by Google FASTER!

Short story, is almost a month when I start to build this blog (Digimanx) while I have written some of the posts on it. I realize there is something wrong at that time.

When I type my blog name or related keyword on Google, Yahoo and Bing search box. My website and all the content doesn’t appear on Google’s search result, at all.

I thought maybe it needs a few days or weeks more for my site to get indexed by Google. So I just continue writing a new post while waiting.

But almost two months at that time, and still any of my blog content seem to get indexed by Google and other search engines (e.g Bing, Yahoo, Yandex).

Yep! I really in trouble because usually, Google Spiders will automatically crawl to every new website and its content on the internet. As he, ‘The spider‘ has an Artificial intelligence (AI) and will crawl if there is any ‘ping’ activity on the web. But the ‘spidy‘ ignore my blog.

Having a website/blog running and no one found it on the web? that’s really a big problem. It’s not funny if you have written20 articles and nobody reading your post accept yourself.

After doing some tweaks to resolve the problem, finally, my sites get indexed by Google and other search engines.

In this post, I want to share this experience with you, who have a new WordPress blog and want your blog get indexed by the search engine faster. Or if you might have the same problem as me.

Here is the 6 step for things you can do to get your new WordPress blog get indexed by Google. FASTER!

1. Submit your WordPress site to Search Engines

If you don’t have one, sign up to Google Webmaster Tools now it’s called Search Console. Or sign in with your existing Google account and add your website as your property there.

I recommend adding all URL address of your websites, for example, http://yoursite.com, https://yoursite.com, http://www.yoursite.com see picture below how I add my website property

After adding your site URL, Google will ask you to verify your site. You can choose to verify your site using the recommended method, by downloading the HTML verification file given by Google and then upload it to cPanel > Home directory in your Web-hosting server provider.

You also can choose the ‘Alternate method‘ if you like. And then follow the Google Search console instruction.

Do the same on Bing Webmaster Tools as well. (Bing and Yahoo shared the same Webmaster)

2. Request for your website to get indexed by Google

Still in the Search Console page, now it is time to ask for Google to index your website immediately.

To do this in Search Console go to the left sidebar menu click on Crawls, then in the drop-down sub-menu click Fetch as Google. 

And then click Fetch then click Request Indexing. See screenshot below.

A pop up dialog ask you to choose the submit method.

Choose Crawl this URL. In the future, keep on doing this every time you publish new content on your blog. And after updating the old content.

Since Google has updated the Search console it makes you easier to request indexing your website page.

3. Create and submit a Sitemap

Tell search engines about the list of pages on your website by creating XML Sitemap.

To do it, you can simply install a WordPress plugin called Google XML Sitemaps. You can simply search this plugin on the WP admin on the plugins page.

Then install and activate the plugin. After installing the plugin, go to Search Console again, this time go to left menu search for Crawl > Sitemaps

In the Sitemaps page, click on the red button on the top right of the page ‘ADD/TEST SITEMAP’ then write down sitemap.xml, at the end of URL. See screenshot below the old and the new one of Google Search Console.

And below is the example on how to do it in a new version of Google Search Console.

If you don’t use the new version of search console you should start using it now. Because soon or later the old one may be no longer be available.

Most of sitemap URL usually sitemap.xml but in some cases, it could be sitemap_index.xml. 

Also, don’t forget to submit your Sitemap to Bing Webmaster too. [Note!] Yahoo and Bing have the same webmaster tools.

4. Submit your blog feed to Google FeedBurner

Sign Up to Google Feedburner using your Google account and submit your website URL there. And let the Feedburner burn all your “feeds”

By doing this, it will notify Google every time you post new content on your website. You can also create an Email Subscription widget with Google RSS Feedburner too.

5. Add your site in Google Analytics

By adding your site to Google Analytics it will tell Google if your website is “on the road” and ready for being tracked. And it also a must-have tool for a webmaster to grow their site anyway.

Already activate it? then great! If you are not yet using Google Analytics. Go Sign Up to analytics.google.com. And follow the instruction given by Google on how to install the code snippet of Google Analytics on your site right there.

6. Link Website to Social Media

Be proud of your website by creating a dedicated page of your website and put your website link in every Social media profile like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, etc. This is a great way to alert search engines to track your website’s existence.

Share all your post to social media like “a mad man”

Other

By doing basic stuff mentioned above it should make Your website get indexed quickly by Google and other search engines.

If your blog still not appear on those search engines then maybe you have other problems. Like mine. I have a problem with Sneaky Mobile redirects. So what I did was I find out what makes the issue occur, resolved it and then ask review from Google for Reconsideration Request.

If you have the same problem with me go to support.google.com for sneaky mobile redirects help/guidelines. For hacked website problems you can visit google help page for hacked website here.

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Thank God! after doing that kind of stuff, my website content finally getting indexed by Google, Bing and Yahoo and other search engines.

And yeah! maybe my experience can help you to make your new WordPress site get indexed by Google, Bing, and Yahoo faster.

That’s my story! how‘s yours? do you have the same issue as me? please don’t feel hesitate to leave a comment below.