Google Webmaster

Introduction

Google Search formerly Google Webmaster is the tools to submit websites to a search machine such as Google and/or Duckduckgo.
For a description of the issues on this page see also the Get started with Search: a developer's guide.

Making your content search-friendly matters because it's how you get more relevant users viewing your content.
This is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which can result in more interested users coming to your site.
If Google Search has trouble understanding your page, you're possibly missing out on an important source of traffic.

This guide covers what developers can do to make sure that their sites work well with Google Search.
In addition to the items in this guide, make sure that your site is secure, fast, accessible to all, and works on all devices.

To get started

Follow the following steps.

1. Test your site in the Mobile-Friendly Test to see how Googlebot sees your site.
   • Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot that discovers new and updated pages and adds them to the Google index.
     For more information about the process, go to How Google Search Works.
2. Javascript and googlebot

Keep Google updated

To make sure that Google finds your new or updated pages quickly:

• Submit Sitemaps.
• Ask Google to recrawl your URLs.
• Use the Indexing API when applicable.

If you're still having trouble getting your page indexed, check your server logs for errors.