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.

Sitemaps

Whats is

A Sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages videos's and other files on your site.
Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
A sitemap tells Google which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files:
For example, for pages, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page.

You might need a sitemap if:

• Your site is really large.
  As a result, it's more likely Google web crawlers might overlook crawling some of your new or recently updated pages.
• Your site has a large archive of content pages that are isolated or not well linked to each other.
  If your site pages do not naturally reference each other, you can list them in a sitemap to ensure that Google does not overlook some of your pages.
• Your site is new and has few external links to it.
  Googlebot and other web crawlers crawl the web by following links from one page to another. As a result, Google might not discover your pages if no other sites link to them.
• Your site has a lot of rich media content (video, images) or is shown in Google News.
  Google can take additional information from sitemaps into account for search, where appropriate.

Links

• Sitemaps.org - Protocol Detailed information on how to build a valid sitemap xml-file.
• Google Build & Submit a sitemap, Detailed information on the complete process of making a sitemap of your websites.