The ultimate goal of creating a website is to get more customers for your business who come in form of traffic and Google search optimization is the key to getting more visitors.

For a variety of reasons websites don’t perform well in Google search. By identifying such issues you can improve your site traffic.

Yoast contributor Edwin Toonen has shared five reasons why your website is not showing up on Google.

Toonen says, “You’ve done all the hard work — got a hosting package, installed WordPress, picked a nice theme and wrote some content. You hit publish on your first post. Time to rake in that traffic, right? But, when looking for your own site in Google you can’t seem to find it anywhere. You throw your hands in the air: “My website isn’t showing up on Google, what’s going on!?” Well, here are five reasons that might explain why you can’t find your site.

1: It’s too fresh, Google doesn’t know about it yet

First, don’t panic! If your site is new, it might simply be a matter chilling out and checking back in a little while. There’s a lot of moving parts in getting your site crawled, indexed and ranked. Sometimes, it takes days or maybe even weeks for Google to discover your site.

You can look up your site with the site: search operator in Google. Type site:yoast.com and you’ll see a list of pages found on that domain. If you type in the full URL of a specific article, you should see only one search result return”.

5 reasons why your site isn’t showing up on Google

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