Is My Blog Indexed By Google?

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Is my blog indexed by google yet?” Maybe it has been a few days since you wrote your blog and now you’re wondering whether you’re appearing in the search engines. Maybe you try tossing in the title of your blog or searching for the key phrases you optimized your content for. Nothing’s coming up.

Hmm, is the content poorly optimized and that’s why you’re not seeing it, or is it simply the case that it has not yet been indexed by Google.

How to Tell if Your Blog is Indexed By Google?

In this brief video, FineLine Multimedia owner Fred Findley walks you through the simple steps of how to tell if your blog is indexed by Google.

Why Knowing Whether Your Blog is Indexed by Google is Important

So why is knowing whether or not your blog is indexed by Google important?

• Knowing how quickly your blogs are getting indexed by Google can tell you a quite a lot about your overall strategy on getting your content into the search engines.
• It’s not uncommon for some bloggers to have their content indexed by google in less than a day. Obviously if you’re a blogger writing about today’s current events knowing how long it is taking for your content to get indexed by Google becomes very important.
• If some of your blogs are going up faster than others you can take a look at the variables in how you post to see which blogs are getting indexed faster.
• Maybe you’re disappointed that your blog still isn’t showing up for those keyphrases you optimized for… did you even check to see if you were indexed by Google yet?