

Once your sitemap is built and submit is GSC, you can review in the Sitemaps report.ĭouble check to make sure all pages you want indexed are included. If your site is running on WordPress, it’s incredibly easy to setup and submit a sitemap using a plugin (I like Yoast).

Having a page in your sitemap does NOT guarantee indexation, but having failing to include important pages will decrease indexation. Your sitemap is a guide to help search engines understand which pages on your site are important. We’ve built a content audit tool to help you with this process. When the page has no value to your audience or search engines, and has no existing traffic or links. When the page has no value to your audience or search engines, but has existing traffic or links (think old blog posts with links). When an entire set of pages has value to your audience, but not search engines (think archives, press releases). Blocked via crawl through Robots.txt file.When the page still has value to your audience, but not search engines (think thank you pages, paid landing pages, etc). While content is a cornerstone of a high quality website, the wrong content can be your demise. Too many low quality pages can decrease the number of times Google crawls, indexes and ranks your site.įor that reason, we want to periodically “prune” our website’s by removing the garbage pages Block low quality pages from Google’s index Read my guide about internal linking silosģ. It’s important to note, the 2 interlinking pages need to be relevant – it’s not a good idea to link unrelated pages together. This report tells me the most authoritative pages on my site – I can simply add an internal link from here to a page that needs equity. I like to use Ahrefs “best pages by links” report. We can use authority pages on your site to push equity to others.

Search engines crawl from page to page through HTML links.

You can dig into the specifics in the table underneath (this is an awesome new feature in Google’s updated Search Console).
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How to check if your pages are indexed by Google
