If you’re going to launching a new WordPress website, and want Google to start crawling it quickly, there are generally only a couple things that you can do.
1. First, make sure that you aren’t preventing Google from crawling and indexing your site.
The robots.txt file is responsible to set a command to prevent indexing. You can check out the robots.txt file in the root file of your site.
2. Another place to check is in the Reading Settings in WordPress.
To get there, go to Settings -> Reading. And verify the option “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is unchecked.
Some hosts that auto-install WordPress will check that box during setup, so it’s depend on you to manually uncheck it when you are ready for traffic.
And make sure to click on the Save Changes button.
3. You need to create an XML Sitemap.
To help the search engines know what pages are on your website, and when you have new content on your website.
You can do that with one simple WordPress plugin.
The one plugin is Google XML Sitemaps and its job is to create the XML Sitemap and inform the search engines when you have new content.
4. Submit Your Website to Search Engines
To submit your website, you have to create an account. Google Webmaster Tool helps you to get lot of information about what Google knows and thinks about your site and how you can further improve it.
5. Sign Up To Google Analytics
This is another good tool that’s helps your website in indexing. Along Google’s analytics set up, you also tell Google that there is a website they should pay attention to which makes it more likely that they will.
Google Analytics is a free tool that gives us all the necessary information to work with Google.
There are a lot of things you can do to make your site getting indexed. From correct WordPress settings to content optimization and backlinking — the possibilities to improve your chances are numerous.
After implementation of these some tactics, you can quickly check to see if your site is indexed in Google or not.
To check, visit google.com, and in the search box type… site:your-domain.com
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