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Unless you're naturally getting a lot of traffic and you don't tell Google about yourself, Google is not going to know that you exist. But Google makes telling it very easy. Use this tool Google Search Console.

You gotta tell Google you exist or Google's not gonna know to show you. Connect your site to Google Search Console. It's super easy.

Submit all the variations just like this HTTPS, HTTP, www, no www. Submit your home URL and any important pages in this top bar here. This means you're manually submit submitting your pages to Google's index.

Go to your site, forward slash sitemap XML or sitemap index XML. Find whichever one gives you something like this submit it to this sitemap area in Google Search Console. A sitemap is just a list of all the pages on your site, so now Google knows what to look at.

And sitemaps update automatically whenever you create a new page, so Google gets an ongoing list of all the pages on your site. If you want Google to know your site exists, it's a good practice to tell them.