This means that entrepreneurs, publishers and advertisers are fighting for the attention of Internet users, especially on a site that is visited by 97% of them. I am of course talking about google.pl, or more precisely about the search results page. Being in the TOP3 for a popular query is a guarantee of great interest in the site, which will translate into greater sales or advertising profits.
But before you too can compete for premium spots, you will first need to add your website to Google search.
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Why should I add my website to Google?
Adding a page to the Google index is a necessary condition for it to be displayed in organic search results. Without it, even by entering the exact title of the article in the search engine, you will not be able to find it. Of course, indexing pages (the process of evaluating and assigning them the appropriate ranking) is complicated, and pages are evaluated on many levels, which allows them to be properly classified. However, without adding a page to the index, the search engine will not be able to return it as an answer to the user's query.
Fortunately, in many cases we don't have to do this manually. Indexing robots (in Google's case, Googlebots) crawl the internet using links, whether external links from other domains or internal links within a single site. Newly found content is evaluated and then, if it meets the appropriate requirements, placed in the Google index.
The entire process—from discovery to indexation—can take anywhere from a few minutes to a dozen or so weeks. If indexing a new page takes forever, try one of the methods presented later in the article.
But how can you check whether Google has already included a page in its index?
How to check if a page is in the Google search engine index?
There are several ways to check indexing status. We overseas chinese in australia can use the site operator, the Status report, or the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console (GSC).
Site operator
This is the least accurate method of the above, but it allows you to quickly and roughly assess how many pages are in Google search. It can also be used to check individual addresses. Just enter site:page-address in the search box.
site command in search results
Checking with the site operator whether Google has the page in its index.
Status Report in Google Search Console
In Google Search Console we will find many interesting reports that will help us, among other things, learn how our site is received by robots. One of them is the Status report. It contains information about how much of the site is indexed, how many addresses are waiting to be scanned or indexed, and whether any problems occurred during this process.
List of pages from the search engine index
Status Report at GSC
For large sites, checking whether a subpage has been indexed in this report can be very difficult or even impossible. Google only provides up to 1000 URLs. Another significant problem is the delay in reporting. The data is refreshed less frequently than in the case of the URL Inspection tool.
A few Google Search Console users reported that they saw URLs in the Index Coverage report marked as "Crawled - currently not indexed" that, when inspected with the URL Inspection tool, were listed as "Submitted and indexed" or some other status.
This is because the Index Coverage report data is refreshed at a different (and slower) rate than the URL Inspection.
The results shown in URL Inspection are more recent, and should be taken as authoritative when they conflict with the Index Coverage report.
Data shown in Index Coverage should reflect the accurate status of a page within a few days, when the status changes.
11/10/2021 - Google Search Central - @googlesearchc
As the quoted tweet states, given conflicting data from the Status report and the URL Inspection tool, we should rely on the information from the latter.
URL Check
This tool is used — as the name suggests — to check data on a specific subpage on a website. All you need to do is enter the URL of the subpage you are interested in in the Google Search Console panel in the top field and press enter. You can also click on the item in the side menu: URL Check.
