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Benjamin Sommer
Benjamin Sommer

Reputation: 1268

Get Github Pages Site found in Google Search Results

I have a site built with Jekyll Now on GitHub and I want it to appear in a google search. If I just google my GitHub username followed by 'GitHub' and 'io', it does not find my site. How do I get google to find my site in a google search?

Upvotes: 64

Views: 50706

Answers (4)

Md Abdul Mutalib
Md Abdul Mutalib

Reputation: 75

Generally, google finds all website and index them. Sometimes, it's takes time to crawl the new website.

But, you can do this thing manually by following these steps:

  1. Go to Google Search Console
  2. Add the website as your property
  3. Then, verify your property that you're the owner of this.

Upvotes: 5

José
José

Reputation: 11

The following worked for me:

  1. Go to Google console: https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
  2. Paste your GitHub website address in the "URL prefix" window.
  3. Download the HTML verification file.
  4. Upload such file in your website.
  5. IMPORTANT: Wait for some time and then click on "verify" in back in Google console.

Upvotes: 1

McGuireV10
McGuireV10

Reputation: 9946

You have to create a Google Search Console account and add your page, then typically you just drop a "marker" file in the root (Search Console generates this) so that Google can confirm you really own the page.

Google Search Console

Instructions

(Since the instructions are long and have many links to sub-steps, I'm only providing the link.)

Also, if you're going to use a registered domain name, set that up before you register the site for search.

(Edit: Technically you don't have to do this, sooner or later Google will find you... but this will give your content a much higher-quality score.)

Upvotes: 44

jdno
jdno

Reputation: 4364

It can take a few days before the site is indexed by search engines. Google for google index site and you will find quite a lot of information about the process and how it can be speed up.

Upvotes: 2

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