Fix · Google and sharing

My site does not appear on Google

What you may see

Searching my business name shows nothing
The site is new

Most likely cause

New or changed sites take days or weeks to be found; some sites also block search engines by mistake (noindex, robots rules) or have no links pointing to them.

Check first (about two minutes)

Search Google for site:yourdomain.com: are any pages listed?
Check the page source for "noindex" and the robots file for a Disallow rule for everything.

The fix prompt

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

Prompt language

You are a senior engineer who knows search engines and link previews (Open Graph) and explains them to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
My site does not appear on Google

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
New or changed sites take days or weeks to be found; some sites also block search engines by mistake (noindex, robots rules) or have no links pointing to them.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Check the page for a noindex tag or header, the robots file, and that the live domain (not a preview address) is the one being checked.
2. Make sure the site has a sitemap, a clear title and description per page, and real content; tell me how to add the site to the search engine's webmaster tools and submit the sitemap.
3. Suggest 3 honest ways to get real links (business listing, social profiles, local directories).
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- The page can be inspected as indexable in the webmaster tool and starts to appear for the site name within days or weeks.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not buy links or fake traffic.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Check the page for a noindex tag or header, the robots file, and that the live domain (not a preview address) is the one being checked.
Make sure the site has a sitemap, a clear title and description per page, and real content; tell me how to add the site to the search engine's webmaster tools and submit the sitemap.
Suggest 3 honest ways to get real links (business listing, social profiles, local directories).

Do not do this

Do not leave the "discourage search engines" setting on after launch.
Do not buy links or fake traffic.

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