How to submit a website to Google, Google index

The word “index” means a list, and the meaning of “Google index” is a list held by Google. One of the most important issues for website owners and web developers today is getting indexed on Google. But why is this so important to them? Why should Google index our site?

To answer these questions and understand the importance of indexing, it is best to understand exactly what they are. In this article, in addition to explaining the concept of indexing or registering a site on Google, we will examine related topics such as how the site is ranked in the Google index, ways to speed up the Google index process, the number of pages indexed on the website, and so on.

 What does it mean to get Google index?

Index means information that is recorded and indexed, When a content is indexed in Google, it means that this content is registered and found by searching.

In other words, indexing is a kind of data structure technique that allows fast retrieval of pages from databases. This profile is a table with two columns. The first column contains a copy of the master key, and the second column contains a set of pointers to hold the address. If we think of Google as human memory, the pages we find in Google are indexed in Google, like the memories we recall.

How Search Engines Work

Search engines have three main parts

• Crawl : To find content on the Internet, they check every link and code they come across.
• Index: Search engines store and organize any content they find in the process of crawling. This way, indexed pages are ready to answer users’ questions. In other words, the type of content is presented to the audience that is relevant enough.
• Rank: At this stage, the search results are sorted so that the best answer is displayed to the user.

In the following, we will explain how Google search engine works and how getting indexed on Google happens.

How Google Search Engine Works

Google search engine constantly visits different sites and pages, if these pages have changed since the last visit, Google will save the new version. These steps are performed by two mechanisms, the crawler and the indexer: The crawler is responsible for finding new links and addresses. The crawler identifies all the links on a page of the site and adds them to its list of links, while visiting the next page. The indexers job is to store the contents of the site pages for when a user searches for it.

In the following, we will examine the indexing process in Google.

What is Google Index?

Indexing is a process in which Google stores the contents of a site after visiting and becoming acquitted with it. When Google finds new content on the site (if it follows the principles and recommendations), this content will appear in the search results. Therefore, indexing occurs when Google stores the content of a page of the site in its database.

Why is it important to get indexed on google?

Unless the new pages of your site are indexed, to Google, these web pages does not exist because Google is not aware of their existence. So you can not appear in the Google search results list unless your site pages are indexed in Google.

Ways to speed up the indexing process

Indexing in Google is one of the most important issues for webmasters to be able to put their site in Google search results as soon as possible. To speed up this time process, the following solutions and methods are suggested:

• Creating a site map

The sitemap is an XML file on the server and contains all the pages of the site. This map lets the search engine know when a new page has been created and how often it should crawl the pages to check for changes.

• Introduce sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

Webmaster Tools is the first place where a sitemap is introduced and registered. To create Google Webmaster, you must first create a Google Account, then add your site link by registering with Google Webmaster. In the next step, go to the Optimization section and then Sitemap and put the sitemap link there.

• Installing Google Analytics

Using Google Analytics, you can get a lot of information such as: number of visits, the date each user visited and more, to track users. Google Analytics also gives you useful and effective information about why your site is not listed in Google Index.

• Registering the site address in search engines

Although this method is less important than other methods, it can’t be completely ignored. In general, any correct method of speeding up the Google index should be used. Registering a site in Google does not require much time, you just need to register your site link in Google Webmaster.

• Create profiles on social networks

The type of inbound link to the site is one of the most important issues in the Google index. The Google search engine examines the website using inbound links to the site. Links that enter the site through social networks are more important and higher in Google’s view. Therefore, having a dedicated profile for a business on social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) can lead to faster indexing of site content.

• Share site content

Creating good content is a necessity of any website and it’s how the chances of users sharing the site content increase. The growth of content sharing also increases the number of inbound links to the site, and as a result, the speed of the site indexing in Google increases.

• Creating content

One of the best ways to speed up indexing on Google is to create content. New, good quality content based on SEO principles, in addition to improving the site’s ranking in Google, attracts more users.

In the next section, we will examine the number of pages indexed on the website.

• Checking the number of pages indexed on the website

If we want to know the number of pages indexed by Google for our site, we must first know how many pages of the site Google has read and saved. To calculate the number of pages indexed, we can use the free Google Search Console tool. After installing and launching this tool, the number of indexed pages of the site can be identified from the following path: After entering Google Search Console, we will enter Coverage on the left in the Index section. In this section, we see a diagram. The number specified in the Valid field indicates the number of pages indexed by the site.

Google Search Console was formerly known as “Google Webmaster Tools“. This tool is provided by Google to check the status of the website in search engines and view statistics in this regard. Reviews of this efficient and free tool include: Google site traffic statistics, searched keywords, Google indexed pages, links and backlinks, Google crawler access to the website and more.

Reasons to use Google Search Console

• Website performance evaluation: With this tool, you can know the performance of your website in Google search results.
•  Access: This tool can ensure that Google bots can access the site by accessing its content.
• Check the results: With this search console, you can ask Google to check the published content and delete the content that you do not want to be displayed.
• Attractive content: Create and monitor content that will provide satisfactory results in the Google search results list.
•  Maintaining the site: Using the Google search console, it can be maintained without disturbing the status of the site.
• Solve technical problems: This tool can solve problems that may affect the performance and ranking of the site.

Work with Google Search Console

Although working with Google Search Console may seem a bit complicated at first, the more you work with this important service, the more you will master its tools. In the following, we will briefly introduce you to the steps of using Google Search Console and the effect it can have on your website.

First, register your website in Google Search Console. After that, you have to confirm the account as the website owner. Because the information contained in Google Search Console is confidential, you must assure Google that you, as the original owner, have registered the site. The next step is to identify the owners and users. The owner has full access to all parts of the website, but this possibility is limited to other users. The ability to add or remove users, change settings, access all data and tools is the sole responsibility of the site owner. Users can only view the data and activities performed.

Google has dedicated part of Webmaster Tools settings to indexing and reviewing its results. In this section of Google Search Console, you can check the indexing of your web pages. You will also be able to introduce your sitemap through this section.

This section of the Google console consists of two parts: Coverage and Sitemap.

1- Coverage

With this Google Console tab, you can see which web pages can be indexed and which can’t and for what reasons. Also, with this option, it is possible to solve potential problems. This will be of great help when managing the web pages.

2- Sitemap

With the help of this section of Google Search Console, you can register a site map in GSC. With the help of Sitemap, Google can better understand the main topic of the site, and this issue will improve the SEO of the site. You can also check if Google has found your sitemap through your Google console. Sitemap has a very important role in the process of indexing the website and it is necessary to pay enough attention to it. In the next step, while getting acquainted with the available tools, they should be used to improve the performance of the website.

The last word

As mentioned, when Google stores the content of a page of your site in its database, the indexing process occurs in Google. In this article, we talked about how Google works and the process of indexing in Google, as well as the importance of indexing and ways to increase its speed.