Hey everyone. If you have a website, this is worth ten minutes of your time this week. It's free, and it's how you tell Google your site exists. Without it, you're waiting for Google to find your pages on its own. For a new site, that can take months. With it, you can ask Google to come look. When I did this on basedinboise.com, Google had 49 pages indexed three weeks after the site went live. Indexed means Google can show your page in search results, and in its AI answers. Here are the steps: - Go to search.google.com/search-console and add your domain. Pick Domain, not URL prefix. - Google gives you a TXT record. Add it where you bought your domain, next to your other records, then click Verify. - Click Sitemaps and submit your sitemap. On Halo it's yourdomain.com/sitemap-index.xml. - Paste a page address into the search bar at the top and click Request indexing. Do your most important pages first. - Every time you publish a new page, request it that same day. The setup takes about ten minutes. Requesting every page takes a few days, because Google only lets you ask for about ten a day. Here's the full walkthrough with screenshots: support.huzihalo.com/index-your-custom-domain/ When you're done with Google, do Bing next. That's where ChatGPT and Copilot get their answers: support.huzihalo.com/add-your-domain-to-bing/ If you get stuck on any step, drop a comment and I'll help you through it.