Does Google Even Know If Your Website Exists?

28/10/2016 by Rowan Shead

Hello. Is anybody out there?

How To Get Indexed by Google…

Does Google even know if your website Exists?

The latest buzz it’s all about content.

You need to keep putting more content on your each week.

Yes, that’s a good strategy for helping your site get found in the Search Engines (Google, Bing Yahoo, etc.), providing you do 3 things.

Well, just bear with me. I promise you, I’m going to give you a serious money-making tip in just a minute (…or two).

If you talk to most businesses on their Web Traffic. “Are they happy with the amount of traffic their website generates?” and “Do they know how this traffic converts?” Most business owners want more traffic and have no clue if it produces any extra business

If you don’t get attention, everything else you do is simply just a waste of time.

No attention = no sales = no revenue = no business.

So what are the 2 things you need to get website to Shows Up

1 Your content has to add value to people looking for a solution in Google.

It goes without saying Google is not going to show your site if your only peddling tired, irrelevant, useless content.

So let’s assume you’ve got this part covered.

I know I’m only glossing over this because it’s such large topic I’ll cover this in more detail in future articles. If that’s alright with you?

2 You need to know how to get your site Indexed by Google.

When I say Google, this will apply to other search engines. Ok?

I have been reviewing a lot of Tradies website lately on the northern beaches

One thing I noticed was Google had not even indexed most of these sites.

Sure there are plenty of contributing factors as to why your website is not showing up in Google.

So rather than get bogged down in all the nuts & bolts of SEO Search Engine optimisation you can check out .

Does Your Website Show Up?

So this doesn’t get too confusing let’s concentrate on how to get your site Indexed by Google

Do you want to see how easy it is to get your site indexed?

Ok let’s dive in
So you don’t get lost I’ll go through this Step by Step. Ok?

How To Get Indexed by Google

Step 1 – You need a blog or some content

Here’s a blog I created.
https://gettingmorecustomers.co/are-you-spending-all-your-time-effort-money-chasing-one-off-transactional-sales/

Step 2 – Check If Google Has Indexed Your Content.

So we go to Google Search
In the Search, you type
site:https://gettingmorecustomers.co/are-you-spending-all-your-time-effort-money-chasing-one-off-transactional-sales/
Or for you, it’s Site:www.yourwebsite.com/yourblogpost.com
Try your website URL first. You be shocked to see how many posts Google can find.
If it can’t find them it not going to get indexed, so it not going show up when you searchYou can see Google has not indexed this post.
Let’s see how long this takes Wed 2:36 pm 26 Oct 2016
I’ve got 2 options. I could sit around & hope Google eventually finds a link to this blog post, so they can index by post.

Option 1 Do nothing & wait for it to show up

Let’s see I spent at least 9 hours researching & writing this post on the CLV Customer Lifetime Value. So waiting for the Search engines gods to turn up seems like a dumb ideas & such waste effort.
What’s the lost opportunity?

Option 2 Help Google to find this site so they can index your site

Step 3 – Go To Google Webmaster Tools

You will need to have a Google Account, Gmail, Youtube, Google Analytics, etc
If you don’t have Gmail Account, then get one because you will use this often to check on your website.
Here’s a link on how to set up Google Gmail account nnnnIt’s Now Called Google Search Console
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
https://www.google.com/webmasters/

Step 4 – Google Search Console

So you can see I already have some sites in my Google Search Console
If this is empty, then you will need to add a Property

Step 5 – Add A Property To Google Search Console

Click Red button
You will then see this pop-up
Specify a full path to the site or site component.
Just follow the prompts

If you need help, you can check out Google article Add a website property https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34592

Or we’ll be would be happy to do this for you…

Need help with this stuff

Step 6 – You Need To Verify You Own Or Have Access To The Website’s Admin.

Select which method you are comfortable with.
When you choose a method, just follow the instructions.
If you get stuck or this feels overwhelming give us a shout & we’ll get it done for you.
Then Click Verify

Step 7 – If Use WordPress You Can Also Verify Using Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO makes it easy in WordPress

Step 8 – Once You Have Verified Your Website You Get Sent An Message From Google

Google Search Console tips

Step 9 – Now Its Verified You Will See Current Status

Step 10 – Now It’s Time To Fetch In Google

Click on Fetch in on Left-hand side under Crawl

Step 11 – Add Your Blog Post’s URL

Fetch & Render

Step 12 – Choose Fetch Method

Crawl only URL
Crawl This URL and its direct links – This will help more of your content get found
You get 500 Submissions a month
Tick I’m not a Robot

Step 13 – Check To See If Google Has Indexed Your Post

Check the time Wed 2:46 pm 26 Oct 2016
Post was Indexed by in just over an hour
I was not checking every minute, so it could have been faster, but it’s a lot quicker than if I just waited for Google to find it by itself

So you just got Google to Index one of your posts. Now What?

Fetch works well when you have one post that needs to get Indexed.

So you could Fetch every post until you hit Google’s 500 Submissions a month limit.

If you only have a small site then this should not be a problem.

Just get going, What are you waiting for?

If you’d like me to help you do all this stuff, I’d be happy to.

Need help with this stuff

Does Your Website Show Up?

Your Step By Step Guide To Doing A Web Audit On Your Website…So You Will Know What’s Working & What’s Not……

Click here to get Does Your Website Show Up?

Obviously, if have a large site then this could take a while.

Don’t fret I have a fast solution so you can get your content on your site Indexed.

Add at Sitemap With Google Search Console

Follow these Steps & you will be able to Index your whole site rather than do one post at a time.

Step 14 – Add A Sitemap

Check to see if your site is indexed.
You will notice no Sitemaps have been submitted yet for this website

Step 15 – Create Your Sitemap For WordPress Site Using Yoast SEO

If you have a WordPress site this an easy task using Yoast SEO
We use on Yoast SEO on all our sites & clients WordPress Sites
as the website says – “Yoast SEO is the most complete WordPress SEO plugin. It handles the technical optimization of your site & assists with optimizing your content.”
Yoast SEO has been downloaded over million times
You can skip the next step if you already have installed Yoast SEO Plugin on your WordPress Site

Step 16 – How To Install The Yoast SEO Plugin In WordPress

Click on Plugins on left-hand side & Add New Plugin
In Keyword type Yoast SEO
Then follow the prompts, it’s that simple
For more info on Yoast SEO go to https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

Step 17 – XML Sitemaps Created By Yoast SEO

Here’s a list of your XML Sitemap Yoast SEO automatically creates for you
All you have to is copy these links and paste them in Step 19

Ok, I know some of you are not using WordPress, so you will need an alternative.

Step 18 Use XML-Sitemaps.com Sitemap Generator

You find this Sitemap Generator at https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Fair Warning – I have not used this because I have a WordPress site using Yoast SEO
I heard it does a good job, & has 22k Facebook likes & 9.9K Google + if that helps

Step 19 -Adding XML Sitemap To Google Search Console

Copy each sitemap from Step 17 then submit
Your list will look different, it depends on what other plugins you have installed on your site
You now have submitted your whole site to get Indexed

Step 20 – Sitemap Submitted

Step 21 – Check What Was Submitted

You will see the 15 post submitted and now pending
Submitting a Sitemap will take longer because there’s a lot of info that needs to be processed

Step 22- Index Status

Once your page is indexed, you can then check to see how many Pages & Posts, Google has found

Step 23 – Check for Web Crawl Errors

You now see the errors on your site so you can fix them

Step 24 – Check if your Website content has been indexed

How many pages have been Indexed by Google

Google has now Indexed your Website
You can see Google has found & index 67 pages on Getting More Customers Website

Step 25 – Rinse & Repeat with Bing

You can now rinse & repeat do for Bing the Steps are similar
www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
If you need more info on how to do this in Bing go to Bing Sitemaps

So that’s how you get How To Get Indexed by Google

Thanks for reading this. I hope you found this useful.

If you get stuck or this feels overwhelming give us a shout & we’ll get it done for you.

Does Your Website Show Up?

Your Step By Step Guide To Doing A Web Audit On Your Website…So You Will Know What’s Working & What’s Not……

Click here to get Does Your Website Show Up?

If you’d like me to help you do all this stuff, I’d be happy to.

I am writing to recommend Rowan Shead and his Cashflow CopyWriting & Marketing business. As I am sure you are aware, there are plenty of companies that are in the market that can provide websites and marketing content. Of course, Rowan’s company can do this. However, there are far fewer companies out there that can put together content that actually brings business in the door. In order to do this, you have to possess the following qualities.

1. An understanding of the marketplace. Why do people buy from one website versus another? How do people find one website versus another? What content generates
internet traffic such as a blog versus using Flash which is unreadable to search engines.

2. An understanding of the workflow. Many people are moving to permission-based marketing in order to gain new clients and grow their business. You have to get people
in to your site, offer them some basic value in exchange for permission to sell to them and then grow that relationship.

3. An understanding of how to make all of this technology work. It is one thing to understand how to create a website and another thing to understand the theory behind internet selling. It is entirely different thing to be able to combine these talents into a cohesive strategy and then execute it. Rowan’s rare ability is to be able to
provide all three elements. On that basis, I would heartily endorse Rowan.

Thank you for your consideration!

Sincerely,

Kyle Tucker President

Dexios Corporation - VA 23113 USA

You certainly made a great impact just ‘being you’…to say how much we appreciated your attendance and short talk at MTC’s All Staff meeting last Thursday.

You certainly made a great impact just ‘being you’ as I knew you would.
You’re obviously (unscripted by us and the thought-police) talk and the informal and the humorous way you delivered it went over exceptionally well after the dull and dry
topics from the previous speakers.

Everyone had great words of praise to say about you in the days following your Guest Appearance!!!
I just wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU for taking the time to attend – and with a clean shirt too -it is always a pleasure to see you and I am delighted we have
maintained contact.

Thank you for a unique presentation -which certainly impressed the whole audience!!!
You even got questions where the CEO did not!!!
Well done

Stefan Wasinski

NEIS Business Mentor

Testimonial

Rowan Shead

What can I say about Rowan Shead?

Not much, thanks….

Just kidding.

Back in 2008 my wife and I had just commenced our own suburban Real Estate Agency.

Three months later the wheels fell off the economy as the Masters of The Universe came up empty after losing at the Casino of Greed.

The outlook for us was a little bleak. Home prices went into freefall, buyers ran for the hills.

However I could see through the doom and gloom that a new age was about to dawn and I knew that if I could jump in and embrace the ride on the developing tsunami, things would be ok.

I welcomed myself to the new ‘Save and Seek Value’ Economy – The exploding world of online business and commerce.

“Where do I start?” I wondered

I’d heard of blogs, I thought that websites were just Yellow Pages ads on steroids, social media platforms were only for telling people what you had for breakfast and dinner and landing pages were things you caught flies with.

I knew that we had to become more engaging on our own website and I asked one of the techs at the digital group who built the site for a link or tab to a blog I wanted to write. He said that I would need to outsource it and he recommended this guy he knew – Rowan Shead.

I got straight onto Rowan and by asking him a couple of what I thought were straight forward questions he then opened up a whole new world for me.

We seemed to talk for hours and each time I thought my head would explode with the knowledge he was sharing with me at the pace of a locked on AK47.

Before I knew it, we were setting up landing pages, branding myself, publishing blogs, posting on social media and business really picked up.

For a bloke who was 44 or 45 at the time, this was like undertaking a mature age Uni course, but with almost immediate and quantifiable results.

I learned so much from Rowan at the time and I am still working with him.

Since those early baby steps, I have built and successfully launched my own online real estate agency, appeared on TV and Radio, written and published scores of blogs and posts, love writing persuasive content and copy for other businesses, conduct webinars, produce short videos, and continue to expand my digital presence to assist my clients.

Without Rowan, none of this would ever have happened.

He is a master of the digital marketing space and someone I would recommend you speak to if you want to move your business to the next level.

Craig Heppell

Victor Realty Nambour QLD

Dear Rowan, We sold out FERRARI – ARCHIVE OF LOST DREAMS DVD, because of Rowan’s on-line marketing strategies. This is a huge thank you to Cashflow CopyWriting & Marketing, and to you personally, for opening up the world on-line marketing for my film company TRAC Productions. Your grasp of the on-line marketing strategies and your creation of our company website is quite brilliant! I’m an international television and radio producer, so understanding on-line selling is vital.

Within days, customers from all around the world were purchasing our first DVD program On-line since we set our new company site, tracfilms.com to offer our latest film called: FERRARI – ARCHIVE OF LOST DREAMS.

The new website has had even more compliments for its imaginative and easy to read layout and content. What really impressed through the set-up process was your
understanding of what our production company was trying to achieve, your commercial advice, your eye for detail, and crucially your patience to explain the
on-line process to a newcomer. Brilliant! I look forward now to expanding our company site with you.

With best regards

Robert Cockburn

TRAC Productions Sydney

As a business owner, I know how hard it is to get noticed. Selling real estate in a flat economy takes a lot of efforts. Real estate companies are pouring money into flyers and other expensive advertising trying to catch the attention of prospective buyers and sellers. How do you get found all this noise, in the marketplace? Get a website.

Our old website has been up for years, it doesn’t seem to get much traffic and when they do come, we send them to www.realestate.com.au, so they can see our listings. It seems anybody can build a website, but unless someone can find your site, its only a glorified brochure. Our site www.raywehbe.com.au was lost, with millions of other
webpages. We consulted with Rowan Shead and straight away he was able to identify the problems of the site and how busy the market is.

Rowan takes a strategic approach, applying his sound business experience with marketing concepts which integrate with Social Media Marketing. Rowan Looks at websites as part of a series of processes that have to work together and compliment the business. Instead of just building a website, he researches the keywords people search in Google, analysed the market and the competition and what they were doing. Only after the research did he create a site that’s Google friendly.

We now own multiple sites, which liked together, helping to get our message out. Our listings are starting to show on the first page of Google Rowan’s approach is very different from technicians who build websites. Rowan is first a marketer, who believes “it better to out think your competition, than outspend them.” Rowan is able to take concepts of direct response marketing and fuse them with Social Media Marketing, to get results. A rare commodity.

Your faithfully

Karim Semaan Manager

Ray Wehbe Real Estate Parramatta

I feel very lucky to have worked with Rowan Shead on my website creation. I am extremely happy with the results. Not only does it look great, but more importantly,
with his knowledge of marketing and the necessary Google keyword association, I will not get lost in the ever growing directory which is the internet. My site could have been quite useless without his knowledge in this area. The other huge benefit is that not only has he passed on this knowledge, but the information required in the form of a manual, so I am able to make changes to and update my website myself in future.

This to me, starting a small business is a huge bonus, so it will not cost me hundreds of dollars to change a few words at any given time in the future. I would highly
recommend Rowan for any marketing or website contracts. He really cares about getting the best for his customers. Yours sincerely

Maree Milligan