{"id":7947,"date":"2014-10-17T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2018-06-22T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:46:31","slug":"how-to-submit-your-website-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/how-to-submit-your-website-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"How to submit your website to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations! You\u2019ve published your website. If you are building your website with Yola, we will automatically send it to the search engines to be reviewed after you publish. Once reviewed, ideally, the search engines will index your website for specific keywords<\/span><\/a>. If you\u2019d like to speed up this process, we\u2019ve got a few tips for you here in this article.<\/p>\n

Google Webmaster Tools<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is a program that you can use to help with your website indexing. Once you\u2019ve signed up for an account, you can submit your website and sitemap for review. Note that Google uses the following disclaimer:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t add all submitted URLs to our index, and we can’t make predictions or guarantees about when or if submitted URLs will appear in our index.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

What this means is that not all websites are created equal. Google matches keywords to your content, and your website will also be competing with others to match for those keywords. For this reason, keywords are a big deal<\/span><\/a>, especially for small businesses.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s still plenty you can do to ensure your site is ranked.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll need the URL of your website. If you plan to buy a custom domain<\/span><\/a> for your website, now would be the perfect time, especially since Google does have a slight preference for these.<\/p>\n

\"Vector<\/p>\n

Enter your website URL into Google Webmaster Tools. You will then need to verify that you own the website that you\u2019ve added. You will need to copy the code given under \u201cAlternative methods\u201d and \u201cHTML tag.\u201d<\/p>\n

You will then need to add the code in the Google Webmasters widget within the \u201cSite\u201d tab in Sitebuilder. Once you\u2019ve added the code, you will need to Save and Publish your website.<\/p>\n

Next Click \u201cVerify\u201d in your Google Webmaster Tools account. For more detailed instructions on this process, review our tutorial<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last and final step is to submit your sitemap. Your website\u2019s sitemap will be your web address (e.g. yola.com) plus \/sitemap.xml<\/i>. So the full URL will look like: http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/sitemap.xml. Then go to \u201cSitemaps\u201d\u00a0<\/span>within your Google Webmaster Tools \u201cSite Dashboard.\u201d Add this URL to the \u201cAdd\/Test Sitemap\u201d section, click submit and voila! Your sitemap has been submitted.<\/p>\n

Once Google reviews your site, you can see helpful information within this dashboard that will allow you to further optimize your website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get the step-by-step details on getting your freshly published found quickly with Google Webmaster Tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[945,942,943,362,944],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","tag-buy-a-custom-domain","tag-google-webmaster-tools","tag-index-your-website","tag-keywords","tag-search-engines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n