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Usually it takes about 1-3 months for your site to appear in search engines.
Please note that this waiting period is the same for all websites (not just in Wix).

Please be sure that your site is search engine ready by reading about SEO here.

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Hi my website www.hiremyhubby.info I can't find in any search engine anywhere but only on wix this my second site i have done on here first one up and running but not this one

Having your site appear on search engine results is not trivial one bit. Please read about Search Engine Optimization through here.

Does Wis ensure that when the SEO monitoring tool shows good results for all subjects, the site will be available in search results of all major search engines ?!

Wix cannot promise results, as Wix does not control the search engines.

Each search engine has it's own algorithm and criteria for ranking and listing websites in their search results.

We can only provide you with guidelines and advice to help you rank better for the search engines- but we cannot guarantee that you will be listed or rank well. 

when I changeed templates and transfered to my premium account, why did this change the description in google search. Itt now seems to show everything from the front page.

Hi graham747, 

Whenever you update your website (and make sure you save your file afterward) your website needs to be crawled again by the search engine in order for the change to appear in search results. It usually takes about one month for Google and other search engines to update their databases and for your site tags to be updated..

To view the last time Google crawled your website you can use the following search: cache:www.mywebsite.com (replace mywebsite with your own website).

To speed the process you can re- submit, if you haven’t already, your website directly to Google by clicking here. As well as adding at least 1 more quality ‘backlink’ to your website. Sites with only a few backlinks, or no backlinks at all, will not be crawled often, and it will take longer for Google to refresh its cache of these sites.

To keep track of how many backlinks you have click here.

For important points to keep in mind when optimizing your Wix website, click here and here.

Will my website be recognizable to a search engine? I understand that there are searchability issues with a flash based website. Is there a way to overcome this? I have had other more basic websites that become searchable to google within moments. i understand if it takes a while to be processed into the search engine's database but if i search for my domain name it should come up. why doesn't it?

@chodoshspam,

You can look at my previous post to speed up the process of indexing your site, but below you will find some general information about SEO and Wix:

There’s been a lot of discussion on whether search engines can actually crawl and read Flash websites. Wix was designed especially to suit Google and the other search engines. At Wix, you can be sure that we are doing everything we can to make sure that your site is crawled by Google. We constantly develop Wix to remain on the cutting edge of SEO by keeping up with updates from Google and different online sources.

In short, don’t despair – your Wix site can and will be indexed.

There are many methods that you can take advantage of to make sure that your site is getting optimum attention from search engines. Our SEO team works hard to provide you with as much insight as possible on good SEO through the SEO blog here as well as our Wixpedia SEO support page here.

Is there anyway you can check if my site is set up properly. I still can't find it in the search engines.

Thanks

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Not true about it taking 1-3 months. Go Daddy popped up the next day!

How do I remove this 'http://www.wix.com/pmcprod/abacus-stools--website' from showing up on Google search when I type 'abacus stool' on search????

@FrankGoff

up to 1-3 months. It can happen much sooner.

@ pmcprod

If you don't want your site to be visible to search engines, you can unpublish it by going to settings > Site Optimization > uncheck "Let search engines find my website".

Once you have unchecked this box be sure to hit Save! It will take some time for Google to update its databases.

Please note: Your Wix domain will still be online. After you have saved your document one time, your site will be published. If you use your own domain, you can ask your domains hosting company to point it to another server.

If you would like to temporarily remove your site from the web completely, you can create a new Master Page that says that your site is under construction and make it the first Master Page of your site. If you don't add menus or buttons that lead to your other pages, this Master Page will be the only page your users see!

my site cant be found on google. I have tried everything and I'm considering pulling the pin on wix as I dont believe its search engine friendly. MAny people have this same issue. It doesn't seem to be happening on wordpress. Unless something changes in 2 weeks I will be cancelling my premium account.

As mentioned above, Wix is search engine friendly! Please note: Usually it takes around one month (sometimes more, depends on Google)  to appear in Google search regardless to the service in which you have built your site.

How do you verify the site on bing

Option 3: Add CNAME record to DNS

Can you please elaborate, I do not understand your question.

@cechche3

method no. 3

An answer to this topic can be found in Can I use CNAME Records with Wix?

the site is function without upgrade?