My website doesn't appear on Google search results

[matishuberman]

Hi !

I recently finished to build my shopify website : https://metagamepoker.fr

I am facing the following problem : I cannot find any of my website pages on google search results.

What is beeing hard to understand, is that when I started building my website, I didn't set up a password and was easily findable on google when typing "Metagame Poker". I also had all the pictures of my website on the first pictures of google image when searching for "Metagame Poker".

Then I set the password to finish building my website, and now that my website is realeased (and password deleted), the website cannot be found on google and the pictures doesn't appear in google image as well.

I tried typing some of the unique contents of pages of my website on google and still nothing can be reached.

And it seems like the pages are indexed because I can find them when typing site:metagamepoker.fr or any other url. (which is by the way the only solution I have to see my pages in google).

I tried looking at the google search console but it's not very clear.

I don't know what to do because I don't think that the problem comes from the referencing and I might be thinking of rebuilding the whole website from scratch without ever setting a password.

So if anyone has a solution which could avoid me to rebuild to whole website, I would be grateful !

Thanks to you all,

Matis

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Hello @matishuberman,

Welcome to Shopify Community!  I am here to help you today.

It sounds like there may be some issues with the way your Shopify store is being indexed by Google. Here are a few steps you can try to troubleshoot the problem:

1. Check the status of your store's domain in the Google Search Console. If your domain is not verified, you will need to do that before Google can index your pages.

2. Check the crawl status of your store's pages in the Google Search Console. If Google is unable to crawl your pages, it may be due to issues with your store's robots.txt file or other technical issues.

3. Check the sitemap of your store. A sitemap is a file that lists all of your website's pages and helps search engines like Google discover and index your content. You can find your store's sitemap at https://metagamepoker.fr/sitemap.xml (This can get much better)

4. Check the content of your pages. Google may not index pages that do not have unique and relevant content, or pages that are blocked by robots.txt or noindex tags.

5. Check the loading speed of your pages. Google may not index pages that take a long time to load or have technical issues preventing them from being accessed. Check your results : https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetagamepoker.fr%2F&form_factor=mobile
   
   Desktop Score is impressive : 
   
   
   Mobile Score needs improvements :

   

I hope these steps help you troubleshoot the issue with your store's visibility on Google.

[Rohail_Ali_12]

Hi Matis,

I'm sorry to hear that you are having trouble finding your website on Google search results. There are a few potential reasons why your website is not showing up in search results, and it's possible that setting a password on your website during the building process could have contributed to the issue.

One thing you can try is to check your website's search console in Google Search Console to see if there are any errors or issues that need to be addressed. It's also a good idea to make sure that your website is fully indexed by Google by submitting a sitemap and individual URLs through the search console.

In addition, it's important to have high-quality and relevant content on your website, as well as to make sure that your website is properly structured and easy to navigate. This can help improve your website's ranking in search results and make it more visible to potential customers.

I hope this helps, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions or need additional assistance.

Best regards, 

Rohail Ali

[flareAI]

Hello @matishuberman,

Gina here from flareAI - your Fully Automated Free Sales Machine. Hope you are doing good! I am happy to share some suggestions for your query.

Please consider liking and accepting the solution if it helps.

There can be many reasons why your pages are not found on Google.

1. Your website is new
It takes some time for Google to discover your website URLs. You can check whether Google knows your website exists by running site:yourwebsite.com in Google search. If there is at least one result, it means Google knows about your website. It can take time for Google to index your page; allow at least a week after submitting a sitemap or a submit to index request before assuming a problem. If your page or site change is recent, check back in a week to see if it is still missing.
2. Make sure you are not blocking search engines from indexing your pages
Pages with noindex won't get indexed by Google.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>
Remove the noindex from pages where not needed.
3. Duplicated Content on Your Website
Google doesn’t index duplicate content because it takes up unnecessary space in their index.
4. Add appropriate keywords related to the product or your store niche
It’s incredibly important to make sure that you know how to use keywords in your content correctly so that your content has a better chance of being found, indexed, and ranked. Put your keywords in the page title, meta description, image description and alt tags, headers and titles, and product description.
5. Add internal links
Link to your product pages from the home page. Set up category links and links to products from your blog. The more connected your website, the more Google understands your store and its products.
6. Add backlinks
Backlinks are links on websites other than your own that go back to a page on your website. They represent another website's traffic coming to your own site. Backlinks are important for SEO because they signal to Google that another resource finds your content valuable enough to link to it within their own content. Offering to write guest posts for blogs in your niche will earn you a link too.
7. Submit your site to Google
Make sure to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console. This gives Google a nudge to speed up the indexing of your website.
8. Use blogging
Blogging is a great technique to increase the traffic and ranking of your website. If you blog consistently with high-quality content over a long period, your site will rank higher for specific keywords or topics.
9. Improve your website page loading speed
Slow-loading sites make Google less likely to want them featured in the top results of their index. Make sure your website loads within 3 seconds.
10. Mobile-friendly site
No matter how great the content on your website is, if it’s not optimized for viewing on a smartphone or tablet, you’re going to lose rankings and traffic. A mobile-friendly website is critical to getting your site indexed by Google since it introduced Mobile-First indexing.
11. Make the site user-friendly
Google will rank your site higher in search results if it’s easy for visitors to find what they’re looking for and navigate around the website without feeling frustrated. Google doesn't want the visitors on a page that loads forever or very confusing navigation or has too many distractions.

You will get organic orders only if your products are indexed on Google. For this you have to inform search engines of your regular updates. flareAI automates the update submissions to all the major search engines. flareAI helps growing your Shopify store on Google Search, and 20+ of the world's largest free sales channels.

Also, I did a https://flareai.co Instant FOG on your store. Customers searching on Google are only able to find 38% of your site. The remaining 62% is missing from Google.

If you found the answer helpful consider supporting the Shopify Community by giving it a Like + Accept the solution.

Gina
flareAI

[janvirt]

Hey Gina,

Great insights here, thank you!

I am facing the same issue and trying to trouble shoot on my end.

In order to submit the website, in my case store.janvirt.com I need to verify the ownership via DNS record. Normally for my homepage (www.janvirt.com), I have done it through my provider (squarespace). But how to do it for store.janvirt.com?

Would you or anyone else happen to know what are the redirect domains in my Domains list and if they are hurting my Google search results?

Any assistance on this is much appreciated.
Jan.