- How to check if a website is indexed in Google?
- The most common developer SEO mistakes that cost you the ranking
How to check if a website is indexed in Google?
To notice that your website has been removed from the search results, first you need to know how to check it. Even if the site isn’t displayed in the SERPs when you type in a selected keyword, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it has been indexed out. For some reasons, Google algorithms may have decided to decrease your website visibility but they still take it into account, even though it’s not ranked high. If you want to easily check your indexation, enter the following query site:websiteaddress.com. When I typed in site:delante.pl, Google displayed such results:The most common developer SEO mistakes that cost you the ranking
There might be a number of reasons explaining why your website disappeared from the search results. Below you can see a list of a few most common developer SEO mistakes that can lead to it.The noindex tag
at the stage of website creation, developers frequently block the page from being indexed by the search engine robots. They want to ensure that the ready-made version appears in the search results. For this reason, they use the noindex tag that stops Google bots. What does such page code look like? It’s in the <head> section of the website and can be:<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
- if you want to block most search engine robots,
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
- if you want to block only Google robots.
Our experience shows that such a tag may appear on the site accidentally. Then, it’s enough to remove it and wait a while - the website should be gradually indexed again. How to check if the noindex tag is the reason for the problem? Check the source of the page. Click the right mouse button and select the appropriate option. In Chrome, this is "View Page Source". Then use CTRL+F to run the search function and type “noindex”. If you find content similar to the above one, delete it.