Any layman's Google Console Advice for Me?

[TulleTweed&Co]

I'm around 7-8 weeks into my blog website. I have uploaded sitemaps to Google Console and Microsoft Bing Webmaster.

I'm seeing most pages have been indexed, but some have not for various reasons, which troubleshooting that is going to be a learning curve. I also get very little traffic thus far from search engines.

Aside from Seo ect, does it just also take time for your site to be recognized by search engines? Older sites are just more established so preferable?

Any insight is great, thanks!

 

[Bryn]

You can request a page to be indexed, where all you need to do is paste in the URL at the seach box above you want to look up (or go to URL Inspection), and then click "Request Indexing". It'll take a few days for Google to index it, just to say.

 

[Cpvr]

It takes time for your pages to be fully indexed. Google won’t magically index them and rank them.

You’ll need ranking power, which comes in the form of “backlinks”.

The more backlinks that your site has, the better chances it’ll have to be indexed as google will deem your site as an authoritative one. They’ll crawl and index your site much faster if you spend time building backlinks, which can come in the form of directory links, reddit links, links from tumblr, forum signature links, profile links, blog comments, etc.

You’ll also need to use link anchors with your site name while building links.

With more backlinks, google will be able to find your pages a lot faster and index them correctly.

It does take time for a new site to get indexed and rank compared to an older site, but generally this doesn’t last too long as long as you build links.

You could also promote your blog on social media to help build the visibility, which in turn will help Google and the other search engines see that your content is being visible & seen. If your posts get reposted & liked, it’ll also have a slight impact on your rankings as well.

 

[TulleTweed&Co]

It takes time for your pages to be fully indexed. Google won’t magically index them and rank them.

You’ll need ranking power, which comes in the form of “backlinks”.

The more backlinks that your site has, the better chances it’ll have to be indexed as google will deem your site as an authoritative one. They’ll crawl and index your site much faster if you spend time building backlinks, which can come in the form of directory links, reddit links, links from tumblr, forum signature links, profile links, blog comments, etc.

You’ll also need to use link anchors with your site name while building links.

With more backlinks, google will be able to find your pages a lot faster and index them correctly.

It does take time for a new site to get indexed and rank compared to an older site, but generally this doesn’t last too long as long as you build links.

You could also promote your blog on social media to help build the visibility, which in turn will help Google and the other search engines see that your content is being visible & seen. If your posts get reposted & liked, it’ll also have a slight impact on your rankings as well.

This is very informative and easy to understand. Thank you for taking the time to explain!

 

[TulleTweed&Co]

You can request a page to be indexed, where all you need to do is paste in the URL at the seach box above you want to look up (or go to URL Inspection), and then click "Request Indexing". It'll take a few days for Google to index it, just to say.

Thank you

 

[CTS]

Somewhere here I was posting my progress from day one. As of now, about half are indexed and about half are pending or ruled not indexed. It has been about 4 months and I am getting click-thru's from search engines now. Bit I have barely worked on backlinks.

 

[Cpvr]

Somewhere here I was posting my progress from day one. As of now, about half are indexed and about half are pending or ruled not indexed. It has been about 4 months and I am getting click-thru's from search engines now. Bit I have barely worked on backlinks.

Yes, but top rankings won’t happen without backlinks.

Backlinks are the main backbone behind that, especially if they’re from high quality sites and relevant.

Even though Matt Cutts isn’t around anymore on Google, pagerank is still apart of Google’s main system.

 

[TulleTweed&Co]

thank you, I look forward to watching these and taking notes

 

[CTS]

Even though Matt Cutts isn’t around anymore on Google, pagerank is still apart of Google’s main system.

When Matt was there, PR made sense. I know they diluted the importance of page rank by the old metrics and now I find it difficult to understand, short of buying ad words on the auction block.

Maybe I am being a bit shortsighted, but I have felt my site needs a lot more content and build-out before I start working on backlinks. I want to avoid the drive-by disappointed click-thru's and am hoping that my site better presented will gain a bit more stickiness with guests.

I dunno, I guess I just don't feel my site is ready for getting it out there like it is something already, when my guts tell me it is not yet.