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I have a site built with Jekyll Now on GitHub and I want it to appear in a google search. If I just google my GitHub username followed by 'GitHub' and 'io', it does not find my site. How do I get google to find my site in a google search?
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They are indexed/ranked by Google just like any other domain/sub-domain and there is no difference. You can check if it is indexed by typing in google "site:http://your-url.com". For example this would make sure if Font Awesome Github page is indexed: "site:http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/".
If your blog or product landing page is using GitHub Pages, it can now be optimized for SEO. By adding a simple {% seo %} to your site, GitHub will automatically add SEO metadata to each page. It even accounts for the page title, in addition to the description, canonical URL, next (and previous) URL and post metadata.
The GitHub Pages repository URL is always https://{userid}.github.io/{reponame} The GitHub Pages URL is based on the GitHub repo URL, and takes the format https://{userid}.github.io/{reponame} . The moment you use it, GitHub Pages will generate a website based on the contents of your repo.
To search within a particular repository or organization, navigate to the repository or organization page, type what you're looking for into the search field at the top of the page, and press Enter.
You have to create a Google Search Console account and add your page, then typically you just drop a "marker" file in the root (Search Console generates this) so that Google can confirm you really own the page.
Google Search Console
Instructions
(Since the instructions are long and have many links to sub-steps, I'm only providing the link.)
Also, if you're going to use a registered domain name, set that up before you register the site for search.
(Edit: Technically you don't have to do this, sooner or later Google will find you... but this will give your content a much higher-quality score.)
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It can take a few days before the site is indexed by search engines. Google for google index site and you will find quite a lot of information about the process and how it can be speed up.
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