So How Does Google’s Site Indexing Work?

So How Does Google’s Site Indexing Work?

Depending on the meta tag you use, either index or no-index, Google will crawl and index your pages. If you’ve inserted a no-index tag, this means that that page won’t be indexed.

SEO experts recommend only allowing important parts of your website be indexed in order to achieve accurate rankings in search engines. Tags, categories and other not-so-important pages do not need to be indexed, and it may actually work better for your website’s rankings if they’re not. However, each website and its users are different! Some tag, category and other pages may be important for the site, users, and technical operations.

Factors such as your domain’s name, backlinks, internal links may affect the way Google’s spider crawls and indexes your site. The more backlinks you have from trustworthy sites the more likely search engines will find your site.

By using Google’s Search Console AKA Google Webmaster Tools you can check to see how Google is indexing your site and identify what can be done to improve its performance. The more content you add, change, and improve the more activity Google spider detects.

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