Get Your Articles Indexed By Google

Introduction

How to get indexed by Google? One of the good criteria for your blog posts is to Get Your Articles Indexed By Google. Perhaps to be indexed by other search engines like Bing and Yahoo as well. especially for WordPress users, in this article we will cover on the fundamental things to practice to make your blog posts expeditiously  indexed by search engine (Google) using simple terminology in SEO to make you understand better for those beginners to begins their first step to write  good and quality contents for their blog or website and to be ranked on the SERP (Search Engine Results Page).

For those who want to get closer what is SEO, fundamental things you should know and how SEO works, we already published the article pertaining this in this article of:  Most Used SEO WordPress Plugins

Why It Is Important To Get Indexed?

If you intended to write good and quality contents, especially for the evergreen topics regardless of what niche are you working on, then the answer is big YES for your contents to be indexed by search engines. In this article we will focus on Google as for example.

To get better understanding we will take example of one article in this blog that has been indexed by Google few hours after it was published. See example as below screenshot.

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For the above article that we published on Dec 27th, 2024 it was indexed on the same day it was published. It was ranked on the page 6 of SERP (Search Engine Results Page).

For the new articles, to be ranked on page 5-10 in SERP is quite normal (Perhaps good enough to start) before we aim  for a little bit higher to be ranked on 1st page of SERP.

In some conditions, normally it will takes 1-3 days before your new articles being indexed by Google and ready to display on SERP. Or it may takes any longer if you not practicing SEO style and strategy. In short here is our perspective why it is important to Get Your Articles Indexed By Google. 

1. Boost up your organic traffic, the first and foremost!
2. Increase your Domain Authority (DA) – vice versa
3. Get SiteLink from search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo etc..)

As mentioned above there are three (3) main reasons why articles we wrote in our blog or websites should be indexed by Google. For beginners these 3 reasons may good enough to explore more deeper.  To get your articles being indexed, we will recommends few practice while writing your articles in your blog or websites in simple way.

Utilizing WordPress SEO Plugins

Utilizing a free or paid WordPress SEO Plugin may helps you a lot. We already mentioned it on previous article that you still accessible via link provided in introduction of this article.

In general this SEO Plugin will guide you directly to begins your SEO friendly article. This include how many words you should have? How many keyphrases should you choose as the title of the article you going to published and many more.

The above screenshots should tells you enough info how SEO Plugins looks like and how it works for you. From A-Z. However, you will get more features if you subscribe for their premium package. As for beginner, better to go for the free version.

Make Your Title Simple Short but Meaningful

Another good practice to produce high quality and SEO friendly articles is to make sure your article’s title simple short but meaningful.

Most cases peoples prefer to start SEO articles with big 5W questions. This includes Who, What, Where, When and Why. Another powerful word to start your SEO article’s title is a big H – How?

Because this is no longer a secret among SEO practitioners, hence the competition is significantly high and to compete with the old websites or well established websites are more harder and more efforts should you put on it to rank your articles in your blog on the first page of SERP. To overcome this, build backlinks for your articles in your blog might helps you to join the big SEO game. Otherwise, prepare more unique and evergreen articles that less peoples have wrote about it over the internet.

Register Your Domain For Google Search Console

Another good practice for your blog or website articles to be indexed on SERP is to register your domain in Search Console (Previously known as Google Webmaster Tool).

Submit Sitemap

Once you already done register your domain for Google Search Console and perform verification of your domain ownership in Google Search Console (GSC), the another crucial part you need to do is to submit your blog/website sitemap.

This sitemap can be generate automatically via WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin or other sitemap generator plugin such as XML Sitemap Generator.

Once sitemap generated, copy the link (Example: yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml) and paste the link in Google Search Console under your registered domain. In the left navigation, look under Index and click Sitemaps. Paste your sitemap link here and click on Submit! Done! Now you need to wait for Google team/robot to crawl to your entire website. Remember that Rom wasn’t build in a day? So your patience is much appreciated.

Build Networking/Backlinks

Backlinks  are links created when one website links to one another. Backlinks are also called “links”, or “inbound links”, or “incoming links.” Backlinks are important to people moving around the internet.

When a site owner or content creators find information on your site that they find relevant, useful, or interesting, they will add a link from their site to yours, improving their reader’s experience by providing additional information and your expertise as evidence of their claims. Use. The number of links and the quality of the sources they are found from affect search engine algorithms when determining the ranking of a page. This generally means that the higher the quality of links from relevant websites, the higher you will appear in search engine results pages (SERPs).

The more backlinks you got from higher ranked websites, the more chances for your blog to ranked on the first page of SERP for every articles you wrote.

Just imagines if one or two of your articles was credited by Wikipedia or CNN news. These established website have one or two links on their post articles that directed to your articles on your websites. Perhaps you as the site or blog owner  should be smile throughout the years in return.

One of the easiest backlink that you can get as a normal/beginner is to start linked your blog articles with other social medias like Facebook, X, LinkedIn and maybe you need to start meet and greet new friends who also a blogger to build backlinks via commenting on their articles.

Conclusion

We have covered the basic knowledge on how to get indexed by Google for every articles you published on your blog or website in this article. After went through all the sub topic in this articles, we need to admin that the most and the goal for SEO is to gain more organic traffic from search engines. In this case, Google.  We hope this short and simple tips for you may helps you to begins your first steps and broaden your knowledge how Google choose articles to be displayed on their own SERP.