Does Google know about your website?

Just because your website is on the Internet doesn't mean Google knows about it. If Google doesn't know your website exists, nobody can find it using their search. If you don't know the address of a website what do you do? Search for it, if a search engine doesn't know about your site it can't direct visitors to it.

Check if your website has been found by Google, go to Google and type the following into the search bar...

site:www.yourwebsite.co.uk

Replace www.yourwebsite.co.uk with the address of your website, remembering to keep the : with no spaces.

If Google has found your website it will return a list of web pages it has found from it. If no results are returned Google hasn't found your site.

How to get into Google

If Google hasn't found your site there are two ways to get it found. The 1st and slowest way is submit your website to Google directly via this form. This way can take up to several months to get you included in Google.

The second and quickest way is to get a link from another website that has already been found by Google. Google checks all the pages it knows about regularly for new links, when it finds one it follows it and finds new sites. Depending on how often the site linking to you gets checked by Google your site will start showing up in a week or two.

Get to the top of Google