The FDC Blog

27 Sep 2011

Is your site being indexed correctly?

Being properly indexed by search engines is a vital part of hosting a website. In order to ensure your site is indexed correctly, your site should include both a Google and Bing sitemap on its domain. There are many free sitemap builders online, so it's very straightforward to generate. Once you've added them, you can manually check how well you are being indexed by typing the following into your search engine:

site: "www.your-website.co.uk"

If you carry this out on several search engines, you will be able to tell whether there are any indexation issues by the number of pages it returns. If you find a problem, perhaps it's time you gave our FDC Search Engine Optimisation team a call.