Real Website Hints's video: How to Index Your Website in Google: A Beginners Wordpress SEO Tutorial

For your website to get any traffic you need it to be indexed by google. In this Wordpress tutorial for beginners, I'll show you how to check if you website is being indexed by google. Then we will look at 2 different ways to help Google to index your website by creating a sitemap and adding that sitemap to Google search console. 00:00 - Introduction: How to get your website indexed in Google. 00:42 - What is a sitemap? 01:01 - How to see if Google has already indexed your website. 01:47 - Two methods for creating a sitemap in Wordpress. 02:16 - How to create a sitemap with the Jetpack plugin. 03:14 - Second method to see if you site has been indexed by Google. 03:24 - How to sign up for Google search console. 03:59 - How to verify ownership of your website with Google using Jetpack. 04:32 - How to add your first website to Google search console. 04:50 - How to verify that Jetpack has added your sitemap to Google search console. 05:09 - How to create a sitemap with the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. 05:30 - How to install the free Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. 06:00 - How to verify ownership of our website with Google using the Yoast SEO plugin. 06:58 - How add your sitemap to Google search console using the Yoast plugin. 07:30 - How to add a second website property to Google search console. 08:25 - Conclusion