: Google indexing not working I have recently created my website and hosted it through 000webhost. I have also begun researching on how to make my website 'searchable' from googles search engine.

@Angela700

I remember a few months back creating a new web account for someone using the 000webhost provider. All I added was a simple index.htm page that displayed a paragraph of text. After actually testing the domain online that the index page is on, an advertisement that I didn't ask for popped up after the correct text loaded on the screen.

Ok, what you need to understand is that when you submit pages to google's index, it does not necessarily mean they will be indexed. Google will check through the URLs to make sure the content on the pages meet their webmaster quality guidelines and if it does, then the page will likely be indexed eventually.

You can attempt to speed things up by selecting the gear icon at the top-right hand of the webmaster tools page and choose "site settings" and select to specify a crawling rate instead of letting google manage it, and move the slider to the right.

If you have done all that, then I'd give google at least a good week to see what happens. If there are major issues, I'm sure google will either email you or webmaster tools will have a message waiting for you in your account.

And when you search for your website, use the most important keywords your site is about or you can search for the website url itself.

I think also, using site:example.com as a search query will list every page in a domain that is indexed. Just replace example.com with your website domain name.

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@Ogunnowo487

As closetnoc suggested in comments, time is a virtue when it comes to indexing.

However, you appear to be using a free web hosting service that is serving some very intrusive adverts, even resulting in redirection!? This could very well be the cause of the problem.

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