Why isn't my AI-built site showing up on Google?
You built it, you shipped it, you even posted about it. Weeks later, Google Analytics shows a flat line. This is the single most common question founders of AI-built sites ask, and the answer is almost always one of five things, all of them fixable.
The five usual suspects
1. Google cannot read your content. If your site is a client-rendered single-page app, the HTML Google first receives is nearly empty. Google can render JavaScript, but it does so later and less reliably, and a new site with no authority is last in that queue. Check it yourself: view your page source (not inspect element, the raw source). If your actual text is not in there, crawlers are struggling.
2. Google does not know your pages exist. No sitemap.xml, no links pointing at your site, and every page an orphan. Crawlers discover pages by following links and reading sitemaps. A brand-new domain with neither can take a very long time to be discovered at all.
3. Your pages do not target anything. A title like "Home" and no meta description means Google has no idea what queries you deserve. Pages rank for the intent their content and metadata express.
4. You are indexed but outcompeted. A new domain has zero authority. If your pages only target hyper-competitive phrases, being indexed correctly still leaves you on page nine. Long-tail, specific queries are where new sites win first.
5. Something is actively blocking you. A leftover noindex tag, a robots.txt that disallows everything, or a staging password. It sounds silly and it happens constantly, especially with AI-generated scaffolding that shipped with safe defaults.
Diagnose it in five minutes
- Search Google for site:yourdomain.com. Zero results means an indexing problem (suspects 2 or 5). Results but no traffic means a relevance problem (suspects 3 or 4)
- View the raw page source and search for your main headline text. Missing? Suspect 1
- Open yourdomain.com/robots.txt and yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. A 404 on either is a finding
- Check your page titles in the browser tab. If they could describe anyone's site, they target nothing
- Verify Google Search Console: it will tell you directly about indexing errors and blocks
The fast way through
Drazen's free scan runs this whole diagnosis in about 30 seconds, reading your site exactly as crawlers do, and explains each finding in plain English. Then it writes the fixes: real code, shipped as a GitHub pull request you approve, or as a paste-ready prompt for your AI editor. Most sites go from unreadable to fully crawlable in a day, and Drazen monitors afterwards so nothing regresses.
Questions
How long does indexing take for a new site?
With a sitemap, Search Console verification and crawlable HTML, days to a couple of weeks. Without them, potentially months, because Google has to stumble across you via links that may not exist yet.
I am indexed but rank on page nine. Is that still a technical problem?
Partly. Fix the technical layer first so nothing handicaps you, then win specific long-tail queries your pages genuinely answer. Broad head terms come later, with authority.
Does posting on social media help Google find me?
Indirectly: links from social profiles help discovery, though most are nofollow. A sitemap plus Search Console is the reliable path, and real links from other sites are what build authority.
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