Google indexing

Google follows links from sites it already crawls and reads your sitemap. Submitting /sitemap.xml in Search Console speeds discovery from weeks to days.

Anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. Sites with strong existing authority index within a day; brand-new sites usually take 1-3 weeks for the first batch of pages.

Yes. In Search Console use URL Inspection, then Request indexing. Use it for important pages — not bulk submissions, which are rate-limited.

Add your domain at search.google.com/search-console, verify ownership via DNS TXT or HTML file (Blanca's Builder pre-fills both), then submit /sitemap.xml.

Domain property via DNS TXT is the most complete because it covers every subdomain and protocol. URL prefix is simpler but only covers one subdomain.

Google found the URL but chose not to crawl it yet, usually because of low perceived quality, weak internal links or crawl budget limits. Improve the page and link to it from stronger pages.

Google crawled the page but decided not to index it. The fix is content quality: make it more unique, more useful and link it from related authoritative pages.

Check public/robots.txt for a Disallow rule. The Blanca's Builder default allows all crawlers; a custom rule may be too broad.

In Search Console choose Sitemaps and enter sitemap.xml. Google re-fetches it regularly; you do not need to resubmit after every update.

Only if you have more than ~50,000 URLs or want section-level reporting. Blanca's Builder uses a single dynamic sitemap that handles tens of thousands of URLs.

A single sitemap is fine until ~50,000 URLs. Beyond that, use a sitemap index that links to multiple child sitemaps.

Return HTTP 410 Gone for permanent removals or 301 to the new URL. Then use the Removals tool in Search Console for fast removal of sensitive content.

Google re-crawls on its own schedule. Speed it up with URL Inspection, Request indexing — counter-intuitive but the noindex tag is read on the next crawl.

Crawl budget is how many URLs Google crawls per day. It only matters for sites with hundreds of thousands of URLs. Most sites should focus on quality instead.

Yes. HTTPS is a ranking signal and required for many browser features. Custom domains on Blanca's Builder are HTTPS by default.

Google may override your canonical if signals conflict — for example internal links pointing elsewhere. Audit links, redirects and hreflang to align the signals.

Either the link is inside JavaScript Google did not execute, or it has rel=nofollow. Blanca's Builder uses server-rendered links so they are always followable.

They use the same web crawls plus their own. Clean JSON-LD, semantic HTML and clear authorship — all defaults in Blanca's Builder — make a page easier for them to cite.

Yes. Add specific User-agent: ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, etc. blocks to robots.txt. Blanca's Builder includes a configurable preset in Settings, SEO, Robots.

High-value pages can be re-crawled within hours; quieter pages may take weeks. Update the lastmod date in the sitemap to signal freshness.