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All search engines have some value, but we all know that the reigning king is Google. If your website’s pages are not appearing on the largest search engine in the world, then, from an organic traffic perspective at least, you may as well not exist.

Even if your homepage and some of its pages are indexed by Google, there may still be some that are missing out — and ultimately, that can cost you visitors and conversions. 

The good news is that it’s relatively easy to check how many of your website’s pages have been indexed by Google. In this post, we’ll run through three methods for checking and outline some reasons why your web pages may have slipped through Google’s net.

How To See How Google Has Indexed Your Website Pages

You can quickly and easily check whether a web page has been indexed using Google Search Console, Google.com, or third-party checkers.

Google Search Console

To use Google Search Console to check whether has been indexed, simply head to the dashboard, click ‘URL Inspection’ (it’s towards the top-left of the page), and enter the URL of the page you want to check. Once you’ve hit enter, you’ll get a notification saying ‘URL Is On Google’ if it has been indexed or ‘URL Is Not On Google’ if it is not.

Search on Google

If you can’t access Google Search Console for some reason, then point your browser to Google.com to manually check if it has been indexed. In the search box, type site:yourwebsite.com and click enter. You’ll be shown all of the web pages that fall under that domain that have been indexed by Google.

Use Third-Party Checkers

There are also fantastic third-party tools, such as Semrush, which show you what pages of your website are indexed by Google, and which are not.

Reasons Your Pages May Not Be Indexed

Ideally, all of your web pages will be indexed. But don’t worry if they’re not — it’s usually down to a simple and easy-to-correct error.

First of all, check that you’ve submitted your sitemap. Without a sitemap.xml file, Google’s bots can’t crawl — and thus can’t index. If you have already submitted your sitemap, go back and check that it was uploaded without any errors.

You may also face problems if you have multiple pages that contain the same content. You can remove pages that have duplicate content if it’s easy to do so; if it’s not, then use a 301 redirect link to redirect the webpage to your homepage.

If you’re regularly churning out content, but your new pages are not being indexed, then check your site speed. Google’s bots won’t index pages that take three seconds or longer to load.

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