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Why your Webflow site isn’t showing on Google
Most of the time it’s one setting, or just a wait. The free check reads your site for common search and sharing problems and shows what it finds, with the Webflow steps to fix it.
Check these first, most likely first
Start at the top. Each one says where to find the setting in Webflow.
Indexing is switched off
Webflow lets you stop search engines at the site level and for each page.
- Open the page’s settings and check the Sitemap indexing switch is on.
- In Site settings > SEO, check indexing isn’t turned off for your own domain. Publish.
The free check reads this from your page.
The site is only published on its free webflow.io address
Webflow can stop search engines listing the webflow.io address. If your site is only published there and that switch is on, nothing is listed.
- Open Site settings, then SEO.
- If the site is meant to be found at its webflow.io address, make sure “Disable Webflow subdomain indexing” is off. Otherwise connect your own domain and publish to it.
- Publish the site.
A noindex tag is in the page’s custom code
If only some pages are missing, a leftover noindex line in a page’s custom code hides it.
- In the Pages panel, open the settings for each page named above.
- If the page should appear in search: remove the noindex tag from the page’s custom code and leave Sitemap indexing on. Publish.
- If it should stay out of search, such as a thank-you page: turn Sitemap indexing off in the page’s SEO settings instead of using custom code. Webflow then hides the page and takes it out of your sitemap.
Webflow help: turning off indexing for a page
The free check reads the search settings of up to 10 other pages.
There is no sitemap for Google
Webflow only writes a sitemap once its setting is on, and Google finds a site faster when it has one.
- In Site settings > SEO, turn on Auto-generate sitemap, then Publish.
- Submit /sitemap.xml in Google Search Console.
The free check looks for your sitemap and tells you if it is missing or points elsewhere.
See whether Google has listed your site yet
- Search Google for
site:yourdomain.com, using your own address. Pages in the results are on Google. No results does not prove the site is absent: this search can omit indexed pages. Use URL Inspection below to check a specific page. - To check one page, open Google Search Console (free), paste the page’s address into the box at the top and read the answer: “URL is on Google” or “URL is not on Google”. Open “Page indexing” to see why.
- If the page isn’t on Google and nothing is blocking it, press “Request indexing”. Google says this usually takes a day or so, can take much longer, and isn’t guaranteed.
A new site can take a while: Google says anywhere from a day or two to a few weeks, and suggests allowing at least a week after you submit a sitemap.
Google: check a page with URL Inspection Google: why a page might be missing from search
What the free check looks at
- Whether the page asks search engines not to list it (a noindex tag or header).
- Whether robots.txt shuts search engines out.
- Whether the site publishes a sitemap, and whether it points at your own pages.
- Whether the page names another address as its main one.
- Whether the www and non-www addresses both work.
- The search settings of up to 10 other pages.
It only reads public pages. It never signs in, and nothing on your site changes. It can’t see Google’s own list, which is why the steps above matter. How the check works.
A noindex switch that someone turns back on is an easy way for a site to drop out quietly. DeployPost Watch runs this check on your page every day and emails you when something looks different. See DeployPost Watch.
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