How to Check if Your Site has Been Indexed

So how do you check if the search engine has indexed your Website? You could try searching on one of your keywords .e.g.. making your own Website. If you don’t find a listing it may not mean that you’re not in the database, but just that you haven’t scored very well for those keywords.

There is an easier way using advance search options.

To check if my Website was listed in Google, you go the search engine search page and enter:

Website site:www.build-your-Website.co.uk

The general syntax is keyword + site: + Website name

The use of the keyword is optional

site: + Website name

Will list all of the pages that have been indexed

If that doesn’t work (Alta vista has different syntax) then go to the advanced search page and you can do the same there. What you are essentially doing is searching for a word you know exists and on your Website only.

If you get a result you are indexed if you don’t you’re not indexed yet. The screenshot below show the process:

Here I’m asking Google to list all pages from my site with the keyword Website on them.

You can see that Google puts the keyword is bold.

Re-Submitting your Website

If you have waited 8 weeks and you are still not indexed then you can re-submit the web page. Avoid over submitting by not submitting more than 1 page per day to any search engine.

You will usually find that once you are listed in a search engine then new pages that you add are picked up within 1-4 weeks. You should not need to submit them manually.

How Well Are You Ranking

Once you are in the index you should start to show up for easy searches after 1-2 months. By easy I mean searches with little competition. All you need to do to check is to do a search and see if your site appears.

For more competitive searches you will need to wait 6 months to a year and you will need to take active measures to improve the site ranking.