Trouble with Google "Submit a URL"

Hi,

I have set up a site and have been trying to submit it to Google over the last few weeks.

I put the URL in ( www.livelowered.co.uk ) and the request it to index/crawl the site which takes a few days but then all I get is a load of crawl errors and no indexed pages.

I have read several things about making changes to the robots.txt or htaccess files but I can't find them anywhere in the interface? Would it be a better idea to submit my own xml site map? If so, are there any good, free sites that I can use?

Sorry if these are newbie questions, I am more of a designer so get a little lost with it sometimes!

Thanks for any help!

Cheers, Steve

Thanks for the reply and info Cris.

I have resubmitted my URL again and just checked the Google Search Console and it is telling me that my URL is not on Google and that I have 0 Valid pages and 70 excluded pages...

I have set up a couple of shops with other printers before the shop I have now using the same url, I wondered if this was causing issues with out of date pages as obviously they are all using the same system and were linked to the same URLs...??

It doesn't seem to create a sitemap either, it allows me to link one but only as a link from my URL which I presume I can't upload to as its pointing at my Deconetwork shop?

Really confused about how I can get my site to appear in Google's search results as i am pretty invisible without it...

Any help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated... my URL is www.livelowered.co.uk

Cheers, Dub

Hi Cris,

hope you're well.  Thx for the sitemap link. Just checked with my site and found that with page: https://........./product_info/index/designer_help the pretty old 7.xx version is displayed. Are we even able to amend the feeling and behaviour of this site?

Do we have the option to exclude this page or least to update to current DN version?

In general it seems that in the sitemap are sites included which are turned off and hence can be indexed by google resulting in 404-party

I would greatly appreaciate if DN will only show sites in sitemap which are live. (I also blank product sites which are not available to the store anymore) Can we manually force an update of the sitemap?

Any update on this?