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Issues that would prevent indexing, it’s worth asking yourself if that page is truly valuable. If the answer is no, that’s probably why it’s not indexed. If you feel that the page is low-value and you’re concerned you might have other similar pages, run a free website crawl using Site Audit in Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. This flags up two issues often associated with low-value content: Pages with low word counts Pages that are exact or near-duplicates You can see the number of URLs with low word counts in the All issues report. Although content doesn’t need to be lengthy to be valuable, pages with super low word counts often aren’t that valuable for search engine users. So it’s worth reviewing these pages manually and making them more useful where necessary. \

You can see pages that are exact or near duplicates in the Duplicate Content report: Here’s a good example indian phone number of two low-value pages that are near-duplicates: These are empty category pages on an e-commerce site. Because neither of them features any products, they’re not helpful for searchers. They should either be removed or improved. Recommended reading: 10 Ways to Get Google to Index Your Site Final thoughts Even if your site is indexed in Google, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll rank on the first page of Google for your target keywords. Indexing means you’re in the race, not that you’ll win. This is where SEO comes in. SEO is the practice of optimizing your website to increase its traffic from a search engine’s organic results. In this case: Google. If you want to learn more about SEO, read our beginner’s guide to SEO or watch this free training course.



If you want to submit your website to other search engines, read our full guide to submitting to search engines. Got questions? Ping me on Twitter. Joshua Hardwick Article by Joshua Hardwick Head of Content @ Ahrefs (or, in plain English, I'm the guy responsible for ensuring that every blog post we publish is EPIC). Keep Learning How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines Learn how to submit your website to Google, Bing and Yahoo. How to Create an XML Sitemap (and Submit It to Google) Learn what a sitemap is, why you need one, how to create one, and how to submit it to Google. How to Get Google to Index Your Website Having trouble getting Google to index your website? Here's how to solve that problem once and for all.