CAN'T find the website on search engine or index

Why is my page not showing up in Google search results?

Troubleshoot missing pages and sites 

Here's how to fix the most common issues that are preventing your page or site from appearing in Google search results.

Step 1: Verify that your page or site is not listed on Google

Although it may seem obvious, start by checking that your page or site is not actually listed in the Google index. Many people think that their page is not listed on Google, when in fact, it just appears very low in search results.

Have you created the page or requested indexing recently? Google may take a long time to index your page. If you've submitted a sitemap or index request , wait at least a week before contacting us. If the changes to your page or site are recent, double-check the Google index after a week.    

To verify that your page or site is listed on Google:

1. Turn off SafeSearch , which may be filtering your results.
2. Search for your site or page in Google:
   • For a missing site  : perform a site search with the syntax . Examples  : orsite:votre_nom_de_domaine
site:example.comsite:example.com/animalerie
   • For a missing page  : Find the full URL of the page on Google.
3. If results are displayed , it means that the site or page is indeed in the index:
   • For a site  : it is possible that the pages of the site are not all indexed, but that the latter appears in our index. Consider adding a sitemap to help us discover all the pages on your site.
   • For a page  : If a page is in the index, but it is not performing as well as you would like, consult the webmaster guidelines to find out how to improve your search performance. If the page has recently moved down in the rankings, you can try to resolve this issue . If there are multiple versions of the same page (for example, a mobile version and a desktop version, or two URLs to the same page), Google considers one to be canonical (authoritative page) and considers all others are duplicates. In this case, the search results only redirect to the canonical page. You can use the inspection tool on a page to determine if it is considered a duplicate page.
4. If you still can't find your site or page in the search results , go to step 2 (Fix it).

Step 2: Fix the problem

These instructions assume that you have a Search Console account because it is much easier to diagnose indexing issues using this tool.

Have you recently purchased or inherited this site from someone? It is possible that your site is subject to manual actions. The history pages of the report on the manual actions and report on security issues appear all actions that require your attention. Read the corresponding documentation to find out how to resolve pre-existing issues on a purchased site.

1. If your page or site is new , it may not be in our index because we have not been able to crawl or index it yet. It may take some time between when you post a new page and when we crawl it, and then between that date and the index date. In total, it can take between one or two days and a few weeks, depending on the case. Find out how Google crawls the web .
2. If you've revamped your site recently , or if you've migrated it to another domain or an HTTPS version, pages that used to rank well may no longer rank well. To solve this problem  : Use 301 redirects ("RedirectPermanent") to redirect Internet users, Googlebot and other crawlers. To do this, use an .htaccess file in Apache, and the administrative console in IIS. If you recently migrated your site to an HTTPS version, check that your HTTP and HTTPS URLs are present in Google. Find out how to migrate your site with minimal impact on search results.
3. Check if any manual actions have been applied to the page . Manual actions have the effect of lowering your page in the rankings. They can even make it disappear completely from search results. The manual actions report normally tells you how to resolve the corresponding issues. For pages that have been omitted for legal reasons, see the Legal Removal Requests sectionand the Content Removal Rules for more information.
4. Check if any security issues have been reported on your site. If so, your page may rank lower on Google, and a warning may appear in search results or in the browser. The Security Issues Report normally tells you how to troubleshoot the issues.
5. Inspect the page with the URL Inspection Tool  :
   1. If the report indicates that the page has not been indexed
      1. Read the documentation to find out why and how to fix it. Here are the most likely reasons:
         1. You block the page with a robots.txt file , a noindex directive, or some other mechanism, such as password protection. In this case, use the appropriate means to unblock the page.
         2. If the report describes other technical issues, read the related documentation to determine other possible reasons for the hang.
         3. If no errors are found and Google has access to the page, it may be a discoverability issue .
      2. Request indexing of the page using the URL inspection tool .
   2. If the report indicates that the page has been indexed
      1. Check if you (or someone else) have requested that the site or URL be removed from the index. Open the URL Removal Tool to find approved URL or site removal requests . If necessary, you can revoke these requests.
      2. The page may have been removed from the index or omitted for completely trivial reasons. The web is so vast that some pages may escape us. Ask Google to crawl your page again.
      3. If the problem persists, report it on the Webmaster Forum . Make sure you describe the problem specifically and include links to your site.

Help Google find and explore your site

If Google does not seem to find all of the pages on your site, it may mean that Google is unable to identify them (crawling problem) or interpret their content (indexing problem). Learn about the basics of crawling and indexing

Exploration problems

To be able to index your pages, Google must be able to detect them. Here's how to help Google identify them:

• Send us a sitemap. The sitemap indicates exactly which pages should be crawled. Many web hosting services create and submit a sitemap for you. For more information, consult the documentation of your hosting service (by searching for the term "sitemap").
• Make sure people know about your site. Google finds new sites from existing sites.
• Offer full link navigation within your site. Make sure it is possible to get to any page on your site by following a string of one or more links from the home page. Avoid using links that require user interaction to display, non-standard links, or links embedded in media files or other complex technologies.
• Submit a request to index your home page. If your page links have been designed appropriately, Google should be able to find all of your pages from your home page.
• Sites that use URL parameters rather than URL paths or page names can be more difficult to crawl. For example, the example.com/animalerie/zebre page is easier to identify than the example.com?page=1234 page.

Indexing issues

Read the Getting started with natural referencing (SEO) guide to find out how to improve your site's crawling and indexing.