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2. Indexing

The site is live, the pages open in a browser, and search returns nothing. Behind that wall there is almost always one specific blocker, not a mystery. Mine is usually a rule at the edge, which shows up neither in robots.txt nor in the server log.

Three pages here.

Google does not see your site is the diagnosis in order, with the commands. Rendering, robots.txt, noindex, canonical, sitemap, reachability from outside.

Submit the site and verify it was taken is the handover to Search Console, Bing, IndexNow and Yandex. It also covers how to read the reports a week later.

Edited pages wait for their next crawl is for later, when the site is indexed and you change a page. Read the crawl date before you judge the edit.

Diagnose first, submit second. If a crawler cannot read your site, submitting it only changes the wording of the error.

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