My Hubspot Website Is Not Ranking on Google Search

[QLS18]

Hello - I lauched my website 2 weeks ago and have not been ranking on any Google Search result pages for my brand name (of which there is only 1).  After tying several Hubspot & Google recommedations am hoping the community will be able to help. 

My website is only reachable directly via the URL. Although this is fine as a business card etc, I want to become discoverable on Google. 

I have reset my DNS after recieving this error message specified by Google shown below after doing an index check. However this was exactly the same as what I had initially uploaded to the domain host (Google). 

I wondered if anyone else could help me with a solution? 

Many thanks, 

Quinn

[danmoyle · Accepted solution]

Hi @QLS18. I was thinking the same thing @MiaSrebrnjak offered - that two weeks may not be enough time. SEO success is typically more marathon than sprint. 

However I also see in your screenshot the error. That page fetch failure with an unknown host is concerning. Where are you hosting yout domain? I'd start there for sure. If the Google crawlbot isn't able to crawl your site, no amount of waiting will help. 

Admittedly, I'm not great with deep technical solutions, and tend to "paint by numbers," so someone else may have an easy answer on that error. But that's where I'd start for sure. 

[seotech]

It is very easy if you try this step to fix the website not ranking online when searching on google or bing sear engine. 

[DavidDennison]

If you want to go ahead and shoot over the URL, I'll be able to tell you what's going on and we'll get it figured out!

[CRead9]

Hi Quinn, I don't have a solution, But if you don't mind I'd like to follow progess you make with the issues you face , it's a good learning tool to see issues and solutions in real-time . Since I've only just started to learn on hubspot , I feel it would be a good opportunity , I'm also looking at launching a website but with different content and getting some examples or training is really important right now. 

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

Hi @QLS18 the error you are getting means that Google can't lookup the IP address of your webserver's via DNS.

Your DNS is likely not configured correctly or it is incomplete - if you are hosting your website with HubSpot, you can refer to this article about updating your DNS records.

[danmoyle · Accepted solution]

Hi @QLS18. I was thinking the same thing @MiaSrebrnjak offered - that two weeks may not be enough time. SEO success is typically more marathon than sprint. 

However I also see in your screenshot the error. That page fetch failure with an unknown host is concerning. Where are you hosting yout domain? I'd start there for sure. If the Google crawlbot isn't able to crawl your site, no amount of waiting will help. 

Admittedly, I'm not great with deep technical solutions, and tend to "paint by numbers," so someone else may have an easy answer on that error. But that's where I'd start for sure. 

[MiaSrebrnjak]

Hi @QLS18,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community!

I've had a look in the Community and it seems that most experts agree that a good ranking on Google takes time, given that your website is optimized. You can use our Website Grader to check your website for SEO & speed.

I'll share two Community posts where experts have shared their insights. I'd also like to invite the experts I'll mention to this conversation if they'd like to share their insights here: 

• @DavidDennison shared a great resource about Google Ranking Factors here 
• @gabriel-nextiny, @danmoyle, and @Jnix284 discuss Google ranking when launching a new website (or re-launching an existing website) in this Community post

I hope this helps!

Cheers
Mia, Community Team