Get found on Google

Search engines list the sites they can find and read. Every page of a site made from the Xodia template, and of every site on Xodia hosting, goes live as real HTML, so Google can read it. These steps help Google find it: a domain of your own, the right site address, Google Search Console and your sitemap.

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Four steps to Google
How long it takes
Check what search engines read
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Four steps to GoogleLink to this section

Put the site live on its own domain
A domain of your own is the address search engines list and people remember. On a paid plan, connect it with Xodia hosting: see Connect a custom domain. Or deploy to your own host and add the domain there. A xodia.site address can be listed too, until you add a custom domain: then it becomes your Preview, hidden from search engines.
Check the site address
Open Settings in the rail and choose Search engines. On Xodia hosting the Site address is set for you. On your own host, type the full address of the live site, such as https://www.example.com, and save: sitemap.xml and llms.txt list their addresses on it. If the address isn't where the site is live, the card says so and offers the live one. Make sure Search engines is on under Crawlers; it is unless you turned it off.
Verify the site in Google Search Console
In Google Search Console, add your site and choose the HTML tag method. Copy the code, or the whole meta tag, paste it in the Google field of the Verification card and save. Publish the site so the tag is live, then choose Verify in Search Console. Bing Webmaster Tools works the same way with the Bing field.
Send Google your sitemap
In Search Console, open Sitemaps and enter your sitemap's address. The Verification card shows it once the site is live, such as https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml. robots.txt names it too, so other search engines find it on their own.

How long it takesLink to this section

Google decides when to crawl a new site, and the first pages often show up within days to a few weeks. Search Console's Pages report shows which pages are indexed and why others aren't. To ask Google to look at an important page sooner, paste its address in URL Inspection and choose Request indexing.

Check what search engines readLink to this section

Open a page of your live site, then view its source: in most browsers, right-click and choose View Page Source. A page Xodia built has its title, description, headings and text right there in the HTML, before any JavaScript runs. Search engines read exactly that. See SEO for React sites.

An imported React site that your own host builds ships as its own build makes it. If its source shows little more than an empty <div id="root"></div>, search engines get its pages mostly empty. Putting it live on Xodia hosting prerenders every page.

MoreLink to this section

Search engines: sitemap, robots.txt, llms.txt, every setting in detail.
SEO, page settings and speed tests, for each page's title and description.
My site isn't on Google yet, when a site still doesn't show up.