When you publish a site with Super, Google needs to discover, crawl, and index your pages before they can appear in Google Search.
Here’s how the process works.
1. Google discovers your site
Google can discover your Super site through several sources, including:
- Your sitemap
- Links from other websites
- Links from pages Google already knows about
- Google Search Console
If your site is new, it may take some time before Google discovers it.
2. Google crawls your pages
Once Google discovers a page, it may visit the page to read and understand its content.
Super makes your pages available to search-engine crawlers, but Google decides when to crawl them.
You can check whether Google can access your site using Google Search Console.
3. Google decides whether to index the page
After crawling a page, Google decides whether to add it to its search index.
Being successfully crawled does not guarantee that a page will be indexed.
For example, Google Search Console may show statuses such as:
- Discovered – currently not indexed: Google knows about the URL but hasn't crawled it yet.
- Crawled – currently not indexed: Google has crawled the page but hasn't added it to its index.
These statuses do not necessarily mean there is an issue with your Super site.
4. Your page can appear in Google Search
If Google indexes your page, it can become eligible to appear in search results.
However, indexing does not guarantee that a page will appear for every search or that it will appear in a particular position.
What Super controls
Super provides the technical infrastructure that makes your site available to search engines, including:
- Sitemap support on Pro sites
- SEO metadata
robots.txtsupport- Search-engine indexing settings
- Publicly accessible pages
What Google controls
Google ultimately decides:
- When to discover a page
- When to crawl it
- Whether to index it
- How and when it appears in search results
Because of this, there can be a delay between publishing a page on Super and seeing it in Google Search.
If your page isn't appearing in Google, you can use Google Search Console to check whether Google has discovered, crawled, or indexed the page.