Thousands of new blogs and sites appear daily on the World Wide Web. It is not surprising that search engines often do poorly with indexing newly-made projects. How to make a difference? The very first thing that comes to mind is to talk about the site that has appeared, or, in other words, add the site to search engines.
Search engines find out about sites that appear by clicking on links located on other resources. If the site has no links, then it is unlikely that it will fall into the SERP.
Search engines see new web pages with the help of their robots, which follow links, and if they discover something new, they are queued for indexing.
Large search engines provide webmasters with forms specifically designed for new sites, such forms are often called addurils (the root phrase is Add URL).
This article is about how to add a website to Google. Google is one of the most common search engines in Russia and in the world.
How to add a website to Google?
The creators of Google provide the webmaster with a personal account in which the user, in addition to all other actions, can add the site belonging to him, confirm the rights to it, add a site map. The Russian version of the service is called "Tools for Webmasters."
After clicking the “Login to Webmaster Tools” button, you will be automatically redirected to the login page.
If you have previously registered with any of the Google services, for example, created a Gmail mailbox, you can enter the login and password used to enter the mail. Otherwise, find information on how to register with Google.
At the first acquaintance with the "Tools for Webmasters" it is impossible not to notice the "Add Site" button, located in the central part of the screen. This was done on purpose, because we have not added anything yet, and Google offers us to click this button. Of course we will.
On this page, under the button described above, a small window will appear, designed to enter the address of the site to be added. The address is entered with the addition of http: //. After that, click the "Continue" button.
Proof of ownership
Confirming the rights to the site is quite simple. Confirmation options are divided into recommended and alternative.
In the recommended ones, in the first place is the option that involves uploading an HTML file to the server where our site is located. Click on the link “Download this HTML confirmation file”. You will be prompted to download a file that you need to use ftp manager to upload to the server of the site to be added. After downloading the file via FTP, click "Confirm", automatically go to the toolbar.
How to add a site to Google, we figured out, now add a site map. In the left part of the window is the line "Site Configuration", after clicking on it, a submenu will appear.
Select "Sitemaps", a page will open that allows you to download a sitemap. You will notice a button with the name "Send Sitemap", click it and in the window that opens, enter the path to the Sitemap in relation to the root directory.
Then click “Submit Sitemap” (the button is located to the right of the site map address). Wait a while.
After a few days or more, the Google search robot will process the site map, after which you will have the opportunity to view the report on pages that have been indexed.
Regional affiliation of the site
Google does not provide a choice of region, but if you add a site to an organization, enter its address in the Google directory, this will help in issuing the site and increase confidence in it.
We hope that the information provided in this article helped you understand how to add a site to Google. As you can see, this is quite simple, and even a beginner can do it.