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I have a site built with Jekyll Now on GitHub and I want it to appear in a google search. If I just google my GitHub username followed by 'GitHub' and 'io', it does not find my site. How do I get google to find my site in a google search?

Chris Conover
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Benjamin Sommer
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    In case you already use Google Analytics on your site (which can be trivially achieved by adding `google_analytics: ` to a `_config.yml` for e.g. `jekyll-theme-cayman`), you can use that for verification with Google Search. It should be detected automatically when entering your site's URL. – Nicolai Weitkemper Jul 07 '21 at 19:05
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    I voted to close this question because it is not a programming question and it is off-topic on Stack Overflow. Non-programming questions about your website should be asked on [webmasters.se]. In the future, please ask questions like this there. – Stephen Ostermiller Jan 02 '23 at 11:17

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You have to create a Google Search Console account and add your page, then typically you just drop a "marker" file in the root (Search Console generates this) so that Google can confirm you really own the page.

Google Search Console

Instructions

(Since the instructions are long and have many links to sub-steps, I'm only providing the link.)

Also, if you're going to use a registered domain name, set that up before you register the site for search.

(Edit: Technically you don't have to do this, sooner or later Google will find you... but this will give your content a much higher-quality score.)

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    Have you seen or had problems with the status: "This page is not in the index, but not because of an error" ... "Coverage: Page with redirect"? Is that a limitation of using GitHub pages? Thanks. – Chris Conover Mar 18 '19 at 21:54
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    Also see [this blog](https://victor2code.github.io/blog/2019/07/04/jekyll-github-pages-appear-on-Google.html) – ijuneja Jun 04 '20 at 16:36
  • Has anyone gotten this to work? Ive waited like a month and still nothing in the search console. – bj97301 Jun 04 '22 at 23:13
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It can take a few days before the site is indexed by search engines. Google for google index site and you will find quite a lot of information about the process and how it can be speed up.

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Generally, google finds all website and index them. Sometimes, it's takes time to crawl the new website.

But, you can do this thing manually by following these steps:

  1. Go to Google search
  2. Add the website as your property
  3. Then, verify your property that you're the owner of this.
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The following worked for me:

  1. Go to Google console: https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
  2. Paste your GitHub website address in the "URL prefix" window.
  3. Download the HTML verification file.
  4. Upload such file in your website.
  5. IMPORTANT: Wait for some time and then click on "verify" in back in Google console.
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