Did you know that the great majority of web pages are not indexed and visible on the web? It is estimated that there are an enormous amount of pages that are never indexed. One estimate states that only 0.03 percent of all web pages have been indexed by search engines!

Is My Site Getting Indexed?

Getting your site indexed by the search engines is important. But it can be challenging! They key is to make sure your whole site is designed with the search engine spiders in mind. So if you are planning a new site make sure your web designer is clued up on designing for users and also for search engines. Unfortunately it is the case that many websites have been designed for the end user but not for search engines. The unfortunate result is that there are often indexing problems on sites.

How do you check whether your site has been indexed? Within Google use the site: operator as a search query. The query site:siteURL shows you how many pages have been indexed. For example, site:http://www.yoursite.com will show you how many pages of your site have been indexed.

What does it mean if your site has not been indexed?

It could be a brand new site that has never been indexed by the search engines. It could also be site that has been banned by the search engines because of spamming or rule violation. Or there could an existing problem that is actually stopping the search engines from indexing your site.

If you have a brand new site the key is to get links to your site from other sites. Forget about these offers of