Google Inclusion - 2 Tips for Fast Inclusion

The previous article briefly describes how Shopify Seo works.. After you've optimized your SEO, it's time to submit it to Google for inclusion. This is the foundation of your website's SEO and has a direct impact on whether or not your Shopify store will show up in Google search results. For cross-border e-commerce sellers, making sure your product pages and content are indexed quickly by Google is key to attracting natural traffic.

What is Google Inclusion? Why is it important?

Your website will appear in google search results only after the Google search engine crawler (Googlebot) crawls and indexes your website content. It is only after being indexed that your page has a chance to appear in the search results. If your page is done, but not for Google to see, it will also crawl your data, but to schedule, just like you go to the bank queue does not take the number, and so on the close of business may be someone noticed that you have business needs.

The importance of this is as follows:
1, improve visibility: Page inclusion is the basis of traffic, otherwise Google won't see your store at all.
2, increase traffic opportunities: The page is done, and when it turns out it's not indexed, it's a waste of traffic.
3, support long-term SEO: Inclusion is the first step in improving your rankings, and you can't talk about rankings without inclusion.

Factors affecting Google's indexing

Shopify has a very good relationship with Google, so good that you don't even have to think about some of the regular SEO. however, it's beneficial to understand the logic of Google's crawlers so that you have key SEO information at your fingertips:

1, Website structure: A logical and clear site structure is good for crawlers to crawl. (Teachers also like students with good handwriting, and a confusing site structure can be maddening.)
2, page loading speed: Google prefers to include pages that load quickly. User experience, is very, very important.In my previous post I mentioned how to check your website loading speed.
3, Quality of content: Original, valuable content is more likely to be included. This goes without saying that washed out, pure AI low quality, doesn't help.
4, link quality: Internal and external links can affect the crawler's crawling efficiency. A better solution is "This link jumps to your home page, or from your home page to your page in no more than 3 clicks.." The pages can't be too deep.
5, Sitemap (site map): Provide a clear guide to the structure of your website to help Google understand your content.

How can I increase the probability of my Shopify store being found by Google?

1, manual upload.

In your GSC backend (Google Search ConsoleClick on "Webpage Check", enter the URL, wait for the test, after the test is successful, click on "Request for Indexing" and get a reply, it is considered successful.This approach is suitable for one-time submission needs such as single articles, blog pages, event pages, etc.

in the event thatThere are so many pages that you need to submit a Sitemap.This can't be found on Shopify, the old version will have it, the new version are hidden entrance is very deep. You can get it directly if you install the SEO optimization related app, you can also go through the following way to submit. Usually https://Your domain name.com/sitemap.xml. Shopify itself will automatically generate the sitemap, will also be submitted by default, but you can also manually submit the way, to achieve faster be compiled into the search.

2, Optimize Shopify's URL structure to speed up the probability of being indexed.

To make Google more proactive, you need to throw in the towel and design URLs that prefer simplicity and clarity. here are the basic optimization methods:

1, to ensure that each product, page URL contains the main keywords.
2. Avoid auto-generated lengthy URLs, such as collections/all?sort_by=....
3, Manually edit the URL slug in the Shopify backend to make it shorter and more search-friendly.

How to check Google's indexing status?

The above ways, just two of the more basic ways to speed up the indexing. In fact, there are similar "original content", technical SEO, as well as image optimization, speed optimization, etc., I think it can really speed up the probability of being indexed, but because it is too extensive and troublesome to operate, it is more suitable for daily optimization to be systematically mentioned.

Do the above two tips, basically will be able to be included, Shopify is still very Seo friendly.

But it will take some time to be indexed and to show up in a keyword search. Thus you can wait for a while and then by typing in the Google search box:site:yourdomain.comIf you want to see the number of pages that have been indexed by searching results, you can do so by clicking the "Search" button.

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put at the end

Improving your Google inclusion rate is the first step in Shopify SEO. From setting up the Google Search Console, to optimizing URLs, improving loading speeds, and publishing high-quality content, there are long steps that follow waiting to be optimized on a daily basis.

Seo is a long endeavor, building a foundation and creating content consistently is key.