Google Not Indexing Your Blog Posts? 5 Things to Check (My 40-Day Story)
A little misadventure of a beginner blogger from Korea, taking on the world’s biggest search engine. ▲Google Search Console: the number of indexed pages rose from one to six And yes, that beginner blogger was me. I had opened a tiny shop in Google’s enormous marketplace. But no matter how hard I tried, the world’s biggest search engine seemed to walk right past my door. For about 40 days, I waited. Then something finally changed. My Google Search Console report showed that the number of indexed pages had increased from just one to six. My homepage was no longer alone. Five individual blog posts had joined it. At last! But my little victory came with an important lesson: Getting indexed by Google does not mean getting visitors from Google. And a delay in indexing does not necessarily mean something is wrong with your blog. If you’re a new blogger wondering why Google hasn’t indexed your posts, here are five things worth knowing before you start losing sleep over it. 1. Five...