I have created a website for a friend of mine exactly the same way I did mine. I/we can enter the site via login etc, but when searching for the site it does not come up. Created the free one for a startup for their business.
How do I/we proceed.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Kind regards Elizabeth
Hey! sounds like you have a little SEO in your future. @Adams definityly roght on google being slow at times. I didn't have my site preview (snapshot that replaces your links on social media/IM/etc) until 2 days after I set it up. My advice is to go get your freind set up with their own Google Analytics account and put their snippit of code into Settings->SEO header box. If you haven't done that for yourself, you should because that meanse at the moment you're relying entirely on weebly's analytics account which you have absolutely no control over. Getting your own account Will allow you full access to the data and allow you to exclude or include whatever your heart desires. After that you'll just continue through the "Next arrows" in Google Analytics setup. Google want to better verify and you're done, just wait on Google.
It's much faster to click on the alternative method instead of waiting for Google to try to find its analytics code. If you choose the option of putting a piece of code into your website it'll give you a one line meta-tag and you'll just paste that little code into the header with the Google analytics snippet you just pasted.
Now that that's done you want to jump over to Google Console (not Google console API, not Google custom search engine console, but simply you Google Console. This confuses a lot of people and even mixed me up the bitter one point I'm just trying to be clear).l lear this part is one of the least self explanatory things that Google has created for web dev basically it you're a you're siting here and it will want to verify it. If you put that snippet of code into your header in the last section then great, you don't have to do anything here because it uses the same snippet of code to find you. Now on the left side menu you'll see something about page crawling. You'll click on that and it starting your first level of navigation:
News an option underneath the input box to have the crawlers follow internal links you will want to check that. For some reason it doesn't expand to the other navigation areas even if they do connect but at least he gets everywhere else and you end up with the site map out of this while you've called attention to it so the crawlers don't I have to stumble across it between now and whenever. The following is just an example of stuff you'll put into the input bar. /
/about
/contact_us
/blog
/store
so basically if it's a large site all of your splash pages get entered, it's a small website, your navigation links and where they take you when you click on THEM, not their drop downs.
At this point you've pretty much done everything you can in terms of getting Google to recognize and you've also accomplished some very excellent things to have done in terms of SEO. So if you're still waiting on Google I would going to the pages section and just start filling out the SCO stuff in there you don't have to do anything for the header and footer inputs in the area Forget all the other stuff it'll help a lot.
Since you sent this yesterday and it went surprise me if Google has already taken care of this matter but I'd still encourage you to do the above anyways, it's one of those things that seem obnoxious right now but you are going to be so glad you did later on down the road.
Good luck, and don't hesitate to shoot me a message if you get stuck. I don't think you will, but it's what development so weird things happen,
