Adding Content to Google Search
When you want your hard-earned content to be searchable by others, it’s crucial to add your content to Google Search.
Here’s a problem that’s often overlooked but significantly impacts whether your content can be found by others. Make sure to read until the end!
First, let’s introduce Google Search Console!
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free tool provided by Google, primarily used to help website owners monitor and maintain their site’s presence in Google Search results. The main functions are as follows:
URL Inspection Tool
Provides information about the status of a specific URL in Google’s index. Checks whether a URL has been indexed and understands how Googlebot crawls and renders the page.
Coverage Report
View which pages have been indexed and which have issues. Get detailed information about errors and warnings for correction.
Sitemap Submission
Submit sitemaps to help Google better crawl and index your site.
Google Search Console Interface
Main menu on the left
Sitemaps are the most important. Regularly submitting your sitemap to Google helps Google index your content.
Performance
Reasons Why Webpages Are Not Indexed
Let’s take a closer look at the Page is a redirect
issue.
Clicking in shows the Google-selected canonical
URL and your declared URL.
Found the problem! Ensure that any English parts of your URLs are all lowercase, which meets Google’s standards. After submitting the sitemap, the pages will be batch indexed.
It took me almost a year to discover this issue. I hope you don’t step on this little landmine! Haha