Google is the primary traffic source for most websites, It's common for new websites to face difficulty getting listed on the Google search engine immediately. To ensure your newly published content gets visibility, it's essential to have your Ghost website indexed by Google as soon as possible.

Suppose you're using Ghost to create a website to add new content or update existing pages with the intent to drive organic traffic, bring the right users for the “call to action” or want to monetize your content.

Google APIs are available for indexing, but it requires technical expertise. Every time you submit the websites on Ghost to Google for indexing, you need to wait for your pages to be indexed and go through the same process rather than spending time writing quality content.

Also, If your page has issues and is not indexed by Google, the page won't be visible to viewers in Google search. You need to verify each page to ensure it gets indexed manually. Delay in fixing the issues may result in pages not being visible on Google SERP.

What is Indexly?

Indexly is an all-in-one platform that automatically checks your sitemaps, finds new pages, and submits them to Google for indexing, reducing human effort and time to get indexed. This boosts organic traffic and helps your pages rank faster and combined with user-centric content will rank higher on search engines. Googlebot takes weeks to do this, but with Indexly, it happens within 24-48 hours with no errors.

If you have errors on your web pages, without waiting for days to know the problem and losing out on time, Indexly page inspection will list the error type and how to resolve them saving time. For websites built on platforms like Ghost.io, proper indexing ensures that search engines can discover, analyze, and rank your content effectively.

Steps to set up Indexly for Ghost

1. Generate Sitemap
The first step is ensuring Ghost has generated the sitemap for all the pages. By default, Ghost generates an XML sitemap for you. This can easily be accessed with your domain URL.

Your sitemap will be available at https://your-domain.com/sitemap.xml. You will also see 4 other child sitemaps for a Ghost site.

• https://your-domain.com/sitemap-pages.xml -- Links to all your pages
• https://your-domain.com/sitemap-posts.xml -- Links to all your posts
• https://your-domain.com/sitemap-authors.xml -- Links to author profiles
• https://your-domain.com/sitemap-tags.xml -- Links to tags used in posts

Try a FREE XML Sitemap Viewer.

2. Add your site to Google Search Console

Login to Google Search Console and add your sitemap under the “Sitemap” section. Google Search Console will show you all the pages that your site contains. This way Indexly can detect your websites.

3. Login to Indexly

You can now log in to Indexly by visiting the Indexly sign-in page and clicking on the button, “Login to Google search console”. The beauty of Indexly is - that it is also built to work with various other blogging platforms like Ghost, medium web pages, etc without any additional charges. Provide the required permissions to Indexly Google app so that Indexly can automatically sync your Ghost website from Google Search Console.

4. Enable Indexing on Indexly
On Indexly, enable your search engines - Google and Bing and setup auto indexing. Indexly will index all the existing and newly published pages from your site in an automated way. Just focus on your content strategy and leave the indexing to Indexly!

What you can do with Ghost pages with indexly

1. Auto Indexing
Once you log in to Indexly and enable the sites, it will automatically detect the pages linked to the domain, once enabled for auto-indexing, Indexly submits the pages automatically for indexing.

2. Instant Indexing
When a web page needs improvisation for content strategy, post the webpage is edited, it can be submitted for indexing via the instant indexing feature manually.

3. Indexing Errors
Indexly also provides you with indexing errors and provides documentation on how to fix these issues. For example, Indexly can recommend errors like “Crawled - currently not indexed” to you.

4. Page Inspection
You can check the indexing status of your pages with Indexly’s page inspection feature. It provides you with the details such as -

• Indexing Status
• Crawled Time from Google
• Robots.txt status

5. Page Analytics
You index your web pages so that you can rank higher and get more clicks. Indexly’s Page Analytics provides you with below statistics so that you can track the progress of your pages on search engines.

• Impressions
• Clicks
• Click Through Rate
• Average Search Position

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Conclusion

Indexing Ghost Sites is very easy and intuitive with Indexly. When Web pages rank higher on the SERP, they build high credibility and trust with your users.

This builds conversions and retention with your audience. Go ahead and give Indexly a try and make your Ghost site rank higher faster.