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My Site Does Not Appear in Search at All Print

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Working through the causes.

FIRST, CHECK WHETHER IT IS INDEXED

Search for your exact domain name. If nothing appears, it is not indexed.

Use Search Console's URL inspection on your homepage, which states whether it is indexed and why not.

THE COMMON CAUSES

The WordPress setting discouraging search engines, left enabled from development. Settings > Reading. A noindex tag in the page source robots.txt disallowing everything The site is too new, and has not been crawled yet No sitemap submitted and no links pointing at the site The site requires login or is password protected

CHECKING QUICKLY

Visit yourdomain.com/robots.txt and read it View your homepage source and search for "noindex" Check the WordPress reading setting

Those three account for most cases.

IF NONE APPLY

Submit a sitemap, request indexing for the homepage, and wait. A genuinely new site with no links takes time to be discovered.

GETTING FOUND FASTER

Links from any existing site you control, a business profile, and social profiles all help discovery.


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