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2. Open up Google Search Console (GSC) and access the domain.
3. Paste the url in the search bar “inspect any url”, press enter, and wait for GSC to scan:
4. Evaluate the results:
5. In order for you to successfully “request indexing” the page should be allowed to index in the back end of the website. We do this through Yoast:
a) Select the post, page or product page in the back and select “edit” (not quick edit or edit with…) (Important: A page needs to be published to index, it can’t be a draft)
(The following steps are also applicable when submitting a post to be indexed)
b) Once you’re editing scroll down to the Yoast section “Advanced”
c) Here you select the “Yes” for Search Engines to show this post/page/product in search results and follow links. Important: save your changes!
6. Once done head back to GSC and click on “request indexing”.
7. It will scan for a minute, and give you this result:
8. Click “got it” and Schedule a task to come back in 2 days to confirm that the page was crawled, and you’re done!
Skylight Digital is a certified Google Partner, with 38 years of collective digital marketing knowledge & experience.
Rory Eliot
Managing Director
+27 82 306 6230
rory@skylight-digital.co.za
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