The total time can be anywhere from a day or two to a few weeks, typically, depending on many factors. It takes some time after you post a new page before we crawl it, and more time after that to index it. If your site or page is new, it might not be in our index because we haven't had a chance to crawl or index it yet.Read the documentation for your report to learn how to resolve pre-existing issues in a purchased site. The history pages in the Manual Actions report and Security Issues report will show any outstanding actions filed against it. These instructions assume that you have a Search Console account because it is much easier to diagnose indexing problems using Search Console.ĭid you recently buy or inherit this site from someone else? It's possible that you got a site with existing manual actions filed against it. If you still can't find your site or page in Search results, move to Step 2: Fix the problem.(You can use the URL Inspection tool on a page to see if it is considered a duplicate.)

If you have multiple versions of a page (for example a mobile and a desktop version, or two URLs that point to the same page), Google will consider one to be canonical (authoritative) and all others to be duplicates, and Search results will point only to the canonical page. If the page has suffered a recent ranking drop, you can try to troubleshoot that. For a page: If a page is in the index, but not performing as well as you think it should, check our webmaster guidelines for tips on improving your search performance.Consider adding a sitemap to help Google discover all the pages in your site. For a site: It is possible that not every page on the site is indexed, but the site itself is in our index.If you see results, then the site or page is in the index:.For a missing page: Search Google for the full URL of your page.For a missing site: Do a site search with the syntax site: your_domain_nameĮxamples: site: or site:/petstore.Turn off safe search, which might be filtering your results.If your page or site change is recent, check back in a week to see if it is still missing. Did you recently create the page or request indexing? It can take time for Google to index your page allow at least a week after submitting a sitemap or a submit to index request before assuming a problem.

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