Site not found in search: reasons and solutions

July 6, 2024 No Comments

How do you know if your site is not in search?

Enter in Google “site:andpeople.net”, where andpeople.net is your domain name.

Here is an example of your site being indexed:example of your website in search

Here is an example of your website not being indexed:
example of website which not in index of Google search

Reasons why a site is not displayed in search

1. The site is closed from indexing.
2. The site does not have title and description meta tags.
3. The site is closed from indexing using the noindex tag.

Solving problems with website indexing

Go to andpeople.net/robots.txt where andpeople.net is your website and make sure there are no “Disallow: /“.
Go to “view-source:https://andpeople.net/” and make sure are:
1. HTML tag <title>…</title> is there.
2. HTML tag <meta name=”description” content=”…” /> is present.

Exotic problems and their solutions

The speed of your website. It may be that the site is loading too slowly.
How to check it?

1. PageSpeed Insights:
Example of checking speed of website

2. GTmetrix:
GTmetrix results

These 2 services will be enough to identify problems and find ways to solve them.

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