I created a GitHub
site last September using a Windows 10
laptop. Since then I have created five repositories. Google
has never been able to locate any of them. A week ago I created a GitHub Page
for the main repo but Google
has not been able to locate it yet either. Microsoft Edge
/Bing
can locate the repository.
I provided links to the main repo and its GitHub Page
in this post. Then harrymc suggested in a comment that I change the name of the repo. I have done that.
The original links (which might not work anymore) were:
Today I recreated the repo and GitHub Page
after harrymc's comment to:
https://github.com/IcterusGalbula/RAWStutorial
https://icterusgalbula.github.io/RAWStutorial/
and renamed the original repo and GitHub Page
to:
For months I tried adding a Google Site Verification
file
downloaded from Google Search Console
and pushed to the main repo of interest.
https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome
Mostly I tried using the original url for the main branch of the GitHub
tutorial repo in Google Search Console
(under URL prefix
). The original link, which might not work anymore after following harrymc's suggestion today, was:
The new URL's as of this morning are:
and
https://github.com/IcterusGalbula/RAWStutorial/tree/main
Google Search Console
returned this error message when I clicked the Verify
button after uploading the verification file to the main branch of my original GitHub
tutorial repo. I have not tried this process after creating the new repo with the shorter name and renaming the original repo this morning:
Verification method: HTML file
Failure reason: Your verification file has the wrong content. Are you using the verification file that you downloaded here?
Please fix your implementation and reverify, or use another verification method.
The content of the Google Site Verification
file is:
google-site-verification: google229f9162496d16ab.html
I have done everything I can think of to resolve this issue including working through ~15 hours of video in multiple Git
and Github
courses on Udemy
, watching YouTube
videos, searching the internet and adding a link to my GitHub
repository multiple places on the internet including my Stack Exchange
profile.
Answers to this StackOverflow
post seem to be to try using Google Search Console
and the question has been closed. That approach is not working for me as described above:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26199705/github-repository-not-listing-in-google-search
I also have looked at a similar post on GitHub Community
:
https://github.community/t/cant-see-my-github-page-on-google/10947
and asked for help myself on that forum.
Thank you for any suggestions and assistance 1.) enabling Google
to find and list my GitHub
repos and/or my GitHub Page
in search results and 2.) verifying my GitHub
repository.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/username/reponame/main/
and see if it will crawl based on that. (you may need to generate+upload a new verification file)