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My site is showing indexed in search console but not appearing in Serps
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hi, i have recently made sites.google site and submitted to search console but when I copy paste in google , its not appearing
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Heya, when you say "not appearing" do you mean you're searching for keywords you hope to show up for? Or are you searching for the urls of your site specifically? If you write "inurl:the-url-of-your-page" into Google - what comes up?
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Hi there,
Google is experiencing some indexing issues at this time. They supposed to fix that bug by the end of the month. Also, make sure you have submitted your sitemap via GSC.
Ross
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