Why is my website not showing up on Google?

The most common reasons are a site that hasn't been indexed yet, a stray "noindex" tag telling search engines to skip it, or a site that's simply too new for Google to have crawled and ranked yet.

But maybe the page is old and the real issue is indexing. If that's the case, here's exactly how to request a crawl.

Technical issues cause it too: broken internal links, a missing or broken sitemap, or a robots.txt file accidentally blocking crawlers. Search "site:yourdomain.com" in Google, if nothing shows up at all, the site likely isn't indexed, which is different from being indexed but ranking poorly.