Google is the world's most popular and used search engine over worldwide. Everybody wants to index his website on google so that he can get organic traffic from google.
But if you are not index in google search engine then no one can find your content on google search. It simply means that no index no traffic to your website.
Many people complains that their site is not visible in google search index. Now we are discussing the top possible reasons for why google is not indexing your website. You must check these reasons to ensure for no index for you website.
Your website is Indexed Under a www(world wide web)- or Non-www Domain.
Generally we think that www.darshwebdesign.com and http://darshwebdesign.com. But technically www is a sub domain. You should add both with www and without www to your google webmaster tools account. Make sure that you
set preferred domain, and verify ownership of both.
You don't have a site map for your website
According to google's latest guidelines your website must have a site map. A search engine follows site map to index your website. You can also check for
google site map policy for more information.
Again check by resubmitting your site map.xml file again to google webmaster tools.
Turn on your privacy settings
If you are using a word press website then you must do your privacy settings by
In Admin → Settings → Privacy to check
Your website has no index in html meta tags
Meta tags tells a search engine to index your website or not.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Be ensure that your website meta tags allows search engine to index your site.
Website is blocked with robots.txt file.
user-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
The another problem is that you have blocked your site using robots.txt. Fix it as soon as possible.
Check for crawl errors
Sometimes, Google will not index some pages from your website due to crawl errors. You must check for these errors in your site's webmaster tools crawl >> crawl errors. Check the error code and fix them as soon as possible.
Your website has duplicate content
If your website has lots of duplicate content then google will not index it. Make unique content for your website.check http://www.copyscape.com/ for duplicate content.
