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How do you submit a website to Google?

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and are right: you usually do not need to manually submit a site. Google discovers pages by crawling links. A single crawlable link from a page that is already indexed (think social profiles, partner sites, or a public GitHub README) is often enough. If you want background on how that works, see Google’s overview of crawling and indexing (Crawling & indexing).

To speed things up and avoid roadblocks (building on ’s sitemap tip):

  • Make sure key URLs return HTTP 200, are not behind a login, and do not use a noindex directive.
  • Confirm robots.txt is not blocking important paths.
  • Create an XML sitemap and submit it in Search Console (Sitemaps). This helps Google discover new/updated URLs faster (Sitemaps overview).
  • For a handful of important pages, use Search Console’s URL Inspection tool and click Request Indexing (). It is not a guarantee, but it can nudge recrawling.
  • Avoid the Indexing API unless your pages are JobPosting or BroadcastEvent; for normal sites it will not help (Indexing API quickstart).

Quick examples you can use:

# robots.txt - allow everything
User-agent: *
Disallow:
<!-- Minimal sitemap.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url><loc>https://example.com/</loc></url>
  <url><loc>https://example.com/about</loc></url>
</urlset>

If nothing shows after a couple of weeks, recheck: canonical tags pointing to the right domain, no accidental noindex, and that at least one indexed page links to you.

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You shouldn't need to. The foundation of the Google algorithm is that Google follows links across the web to eventually discover, on its own, every unique webpage worthy of indexing. Part of the Google algorithm is the concept that the more incoming links there are pointing to a webpage from higher quality sources (pages that have a high number of incoming links themselves), the more important that webpage is.

If you have a brand new website that nobody knows about yet, link to it from your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Tell people about it. Share it with friends of yours who own blogs. Just don't spam :) Google will discover it on its own.

All that being said, the article that rproffitt linked you to talks about setting up a Google Search Console account. That's highly recommended to do as well, because it gives some valuable insight into how Google sees and indexes the pages of your website. However, it isn't required to be crawled, indexed, or show up in the Google search results.

Good luck.

Member Avatar for amit_gupta01

You don't need to submit it manually. Google regularly looks for new sites and update it in there data base. In case you have a site and is not google and is taking longer to show up in google you can update sitemap.xml or you can use search console to get your site on google.

I hope this helps.

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