Advanced > Submission to Google Search
submit info to Google for Indexing in the Search Engines
The only time you may want or need to do this is if you just launched your website and you are in a hurry to get it into the search engines or if you significantly changed something about your data or meta data that you want out in a hurry. If you do not do this, your website will be picked up in routine scans of the internet by Google bots. I don't know how often those happen but I would say it's weekly or monthly that your site gets scanned without you knowing it.
- Goto: https://www.google.com/webmasters/ -- you will sign in with your google account info...
- You will first land in what they all the Search Console -- you will need to "add a property" -- "Adding a property" is in fact the act of adding a website url to a list of website url's you are going to manage in this system. To add a property, you will need access to the website as you will need to put some code on the home page that google can search for to verify you have admin rights for the websites ( you couldn't add that code they give you to the website if you didn't have admin rights, that's how this verification system works).
- For Weebly the easiest thing to do is to add some text to the header of the home page. This is an alternative method of authentication. To do this, go into your weebly console, click on pages, select the home page (the first page of your website), then click the SEO button on the left -- then you will see the ability to add header content. Paste the code Google presented to you into that box and then re-publish website. Then go back to Google window and tell it to verify ownership.
- Once the property is added, click on the link next to the property image and you will be taken to a details section related to the property. The menu on the left is cryptic. If you don't know what you are doing, you will need to google some stuff to figure out what they are offering...
- Click on Crawl, then click on Fetch as Google. Enter any specific pages you want to fetch if other than the home page, and click "Fetch". In under a second or so google will have made a request for and received a copy of the page you requested. You will see this listed below the Fetch form.
- If you click on the arrows to the right of the response record, you can in fact see the exact html document that google got back. This enables you to check all kinds of data and meta data to be sure you are sending out the info you thought you were.
- Click on "Request Indexing" (it is on both the fetch form page and the details page if you clicked to there) and you will be given the option to index the page or the page and all pages related to links on the page. Google allows something like 10 full indexing requests per month and 500 individual page requests.
The only time you may want or need to do this is if you just launched your website and you are in a hurry to get it into the search engines or if you significantly changed something about your data or meta data that you want out in a hurry. If you do not do this, your website will be picked up in routine scans of the internet by Google bots. I don't know how often those happen but I would say it's weekly or monthly that your site gets scanned without you knowing it.