Hello,
I have recently made my own website with dawn theme with very minimal backend code modifications to text/layout. After website launch, I realised my website doesn’t show up on google even when doing the site:olif.in search. It says no search results found. From what I could see no robot.txt.liquid file is there too. My main purpose is that my products are easily searchable website is searchable on google by new customers. As per info on Chatgpt, by prompting it on this topic, I have connected the domain with google search engine console, requested indexing and submitted a sitemap. I need for my website to be visible on google search. Please advise on measures that can be taken? I have tried shopify support, that didn’t yield any results.
Thanks for reaching out, and great job getting your website up and running with the Dawn theme!
It’s a good step that you’ve already connected your domain to Google Search Console, submitted your sitemap, and requested indexing. Since your site still isn’t appearing in Google search results (even with a site:olif.in search), here are a few additional steps and checks that may help:
- Check Indexing Status in Google Search Console
In your Google Search Console account, go to URL Inspection and enter your homepage URL (https://olif.in). This will tell you if Google has indexed the page or not, and if not, what the issue may be. - robots.txt File
While Shopify auto-generates a robots.txt file for all stores, you won’t always see a robots.txt.liquid file unless you’ve manually created or customized it. You can check your store’s default robots.txt by visiting:
https://olif.in/robots.txt
Ensure that it doesn’t have a Disallow: / directive, which would prevent all indexing. - Check for Noindex Tags
Sometimes, pages may include tags. You can use tools like Ahrefs’ SEO toolbar or the Chrome DevTools (right-click → View Page Source, then search for noindex) to check if that tag exists on key pages. - Sitemap Coverage
Make sure your sitemap contains your main URLs and products. You can view it at:
https://olif.in/sitemap.xml
Then confirm in Google Search Console that these URLs are listed under “Submitted URLs” and show up in the “Coverage” section. - Wait Time
Sometimes, it can take a few days to weeks for Google to crawl and index a brand-new site, especially if your domain is new and has limited backlinks. - Backlink Building
Start building some backlinks (e.g., from social media, relevant directories, blog posts, etc.) to help Google find and prioritize your site more easily.
Hello! I have checked all these steps. But its still showing up like this in search, there is no indexed page.
Hi @ohlookitsfood ,
It looks like something is actually getting indexed. Try this kind of search: “site:olif.in” (direct link to search - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:olif.in). This type of search returned results only from the specified website.
Since your robots.txt, meta tags and headers looks correct for indexing, I think you just have to wait for Google index to refresh.
Hello!
Thank you for informing me on this. Yes its started indexing 
Maybe I was just a bit impatient with this. May I please ask another query. I have attached a photo in the section for this. The search is showing up, but there is shopify S icon, not my logo for the site. Is there a way to change that? Also apart from adding meta data, keywords for search engine listing, connecting with google, are there any other good seo practices to keep in place?
That icon is called favicon. Currently your website doesn’t have it so default Shopify icon is used instead.
You can set your favicon in Theme Settings > Logo:
This icon will also be shown in browser tabs near the page title.
As for other SEO tips they are pretty standard:
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keep H1-H6 hierarchy (H1 first, than H2, etc)
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only one H1 per page
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use internal linking
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add fresh content to your website (blog for example)
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add “alt” descriptions to your images
I’ll try to come up with more items a little bit later (will be afk for some time).
thank you so much! this is helpful.
I reviewed my previous comment and that’s pretty much it from the basic SEO optimizations.
Things like canonical URLs, structured data (aka microdata), redirects, etc should be automatically handled by Shopify.
Next steps, I think, are content creation for the website (new products, blog posts, landing pages) and external linking.
I wish you to make it to the first search pages in Google