Why is Google not indexing my content correctly?

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This post is a translation of the material Why doesn't Google index my content properly? , originally published on the Yoast blog. Translation and publication authorized by the company.

Before Google can rank your content, it must first discover it, have permission, and have the ability to evaluate and index it. If any of these processes fail, your pages may not appear in search results.

Most of the time, you can rely on Google netherlands cell phone number list to index your content correctly, automatically. After all, this process is one of the fundamental parts of what Google is and does. However, simply putting your content online isn't always enough.

If you have technical issues, low-quality content, or incorrect indexing controls, you could face problems during these discovery, evaluation, and indexing processes.


Discovery
In order for a page to be indexed, Google needs to find it . This means that it must be linked to somewhere, either from other indexed pages on the same site or from other sites.

Depending on the relevance and quality of the sites you are linking from, it may take some time for Google to schedule these links to be tracked and find your pages. This also means that the page cannot be “hidden,” which could, for example, mean content that is password protected, blocked via robots.txt , or available only to users from certain countries.