Your godaddy website is not showing up on google because search engines cannot access your pages. This happens when your domain is disconnected, your site builder settings block crawlers, or you have not submitted your sitemap to Google Search Console. You can fix this by checking your GoDaddy dashboard.
When your godaddy website is not showing up on google, you are losing potential clients. You do not need to wait and hope it fixes itself. You need to run a manual check on your GoDaddy DNS records, your website builder settings, and your SSL certificate. Here is how you find the exact block and remove it.
Check If Google Knows Your Site Exists
Before you change any settings, you must check your current index status. Many business owners think their site is missing. In reality, it is just ranking poorly. You can test this in five seconds.
Open Google. Type site:yourdomain.com into the search bar. Do not use spaces. Press enter.
If you see your web pages in the results, Google knows your site exists. Your problem is search optimisation. You need to improve your content and start building your local presence to push your site higher up the page.
If you see zero results, your site is entirely blocked from the search engine. You have a technical problem. Move to the next steps to find the block.
Fix Your GoDaddy Website Builder Settings
If you built your site using the GoDaddy Website Builder, your site is private by default. GoDaddy includes a specific toggle to keep unfinished sites hidden from the public. If you forget to switch this off, Google will never read your pages.
Log into your GoDaddy account. Open your product page. Click on your website builder to open the editing dashboard. Look for the settings menu. You will find a section labelled Search Engine Visibility.
Check the toggle. If it is turned off, switch it on. You must then hit the publish button in the top right corner. Google will not see the change until the site is published. Once published, Google crawlers can finally access your text and images.
Unblock Search Engines In WordPress
GoDaddy sells a massive amount of Managed WordPress hosting. When you set up a new WordPress site, the system often applies a temporary block. This stops Google from showing your half finished templates to potential customers.
Sometimes this block stays active after you launch.
Log into your WordPress dashboard. Look at the left sidebar. Hover over Settings. Click on Reading. Scroll to the bottom of the page. You will see a checkbox next to Search Engine Visibility. The text reads Discourage search engines from indexing this site.
If that box is checked, your site is invisible to Google. Uncheck the box. Click the save changes button. Google will now be able to read your site the next time it crawls your domain.
Connect Your GoDaddy DNS Records
Your domain name and your website hosting are two different things. Your Domain Name System records connect them. We call these DNS records. If your DNS records are wrong, Googlebot hits a dead end when it tries to crawl your site.
GoDaddy often parks new domains. This means your domain points to a generic GoDaddy holding page instead of your actual website. You need to check your A record.
- Log into your GoDaddy account.
- Go to your Domain Portfolio.
- Click the three dots next to your domain.
- Select Edit DNS from the menu.
- Look at the A record in your list.
The A record must point to the IP address of your hosting server. If it points to a parked GoDaddy IP, you need to change it. Copy your actual server IP address from your hosting dashboard. Edit the A record. Paste the new IP address. Save the record.
DNS changes take time. You might need to wait up to 48 hours for the new routing to spread across the internet. If you do not know how to find your server IP, you should reach out to our team to hire a developer to fix it. Touching the wrong DNS records will take your business email offline.
Install Your SSL Certificate
Google demands secure websites. If your site does not have an active SSL certificate, Google throws up a massive security warning. Crawlers will often refuse to index sites that lack basic encryption.
GoDaddy does not always install SSL certificates automatically. Open your website in a private browsing window. Look at the address bar. If you see the words Not Secure next to your domain, your SSL certificate is missing or broken.
Go to your GoDaddy dashboard. Find your hosting package. Look for the SSL section. If you have an AutoSSL option, click run. If you are using Managed WordPress, GoDaddy usually provisions this for you, but it can get stuck. You may need to click the button to re-verify your domain.
Once the SSL is active, your site will load with HTTPS. This removes the security block and allows Google to trust your pages.
Remove Staging Rules From Your Robots File
When you build a site on GoDaddy hosting, you often use a temporary domain. These end in secureserver.net. To stop these temporary domains from showing up on Google, developers use a robots text file to block all crawlers.
When you push the site live to your real domain, that file sometimes comes with it.
You can check this in ten seconds. Type your domain into a browser and add /robots.txt to the end. Press enter. Look at the text on the screen. If you see Disallow: / with a forward slash, your site is telling Google to go away.
You need to edit this file. If you use WordPress, you can edit it using the Yoast SEO plugin. Go to Yoast. Click on Tools. Click on File Editor. Remove the forward slash. Save the file. If you do not use WordPress, you must open your GoDaddy cPanel, open the File Manager, find the file in your public folder, and edit the text directly.
Force Google To Read Your Website
Fixing the blocks is only half the job. Google does not automatically know you fixed them. You could wait weeks for Google to randomly check your site again. You need to force the issue using Google Search Console.
Google Search Console is the only direct line of communication between your website and Google. First, you must prove you own the domain.
Go to Google Search Console. Click add property. Choose the Domain option. Enter your bare domain name. Google will give you a long string of text called a TXT record.
Copy this text. Go back to your GoDaddy DNS manager. Add a new record. Choose TXT as the type. Put an @ symbol in the name field. Paste the Google text into the value field. Save the record. Go back to Google Search Console and click verify.
Once verified, you need to submit your sitemap. Your sitemap is a simple list of all your pages. In WordPress, your sitemap is usually located at yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml. Click on the Sitemaps tab in Search Console. Paste your sitemap URL and click submit.
According to official Google Search documentation, you must allow at least a week after submitting a sitemap before assuming there is a deeper problem. Google needs time to process the file and crawl the pages.
Inspect Your URLs Directly
Once you are inside Google Search Console, you can check individual pages. This is the fastest way to find out exactly what Google thinks of your website.
Click on the URL Inspection tool in the left menu. Paste your exact homepage URL into the top search bar. Press enter. Google will retrieve the data from its index.
If the page is not on Google, the tool will tell you why. It might say Crawled currently not indexed. This means Google saw the page but decided the content was too thin to include. It might say Discovered currently not indexed. This means Google knows the page exists but your GoDaddy server was too slow to respond, so Google delayed the crawl.
You can click the Test Live URL button to see if the page is readable right now. If the live test passes, click the Request Indexing button. This puts your page in a priority queue for Googlebot.
Fix Duplicate Content Issues
Google hates reading the same text twice. If you have multiple versions of your site, Google gets confused. For example, your site might load at both the HTTP and HTTPS versions. To you, these look exactly the same. To Google, these are two different websites competing with each other.
Google will pick one version as the main page and ignore the other. This is called a canonical error.
You fix this by forcing a redirect. Your GoDaddy hosting must force all traffic to the secure HTTPS version. You can do this in your cPanel by editing your htaccess file, or you can install a Simple SSL plugin if you use WordPress. This merges the two versions into one clean website.
Check For Manual Penalties
If your site is old and suddenly drops off Google, you might have a manual penalty. Google issues penalties to websites that break their rules. This includes buying spam links or hosting malicious files. You can only check this inside Google Search Console.
Open your Search Console dashboard. Look at the left menu. Scroll down to Security and Manual Actions. Click on Manual Actions.
If the page says No issues detected, you are safe. If you see a warning, Google has actively removed your site from the index. You must read the specific warning, fix the exact problem on your website, and submit a reconsideration request.
Click on Security Issues. If your GoDaddy server was hacked, Google will flag it here. Hackers often inject hidden spam into shared hosting accounts. Google spots this and removes your site to protect users. You will need to clean the server completely before Google lets you back into the search results.
Stop Relying On Cheap Hosting
Many indexing problems stem from poor technical foundations. GoDaddy offers cheap entry level hosting. This often leads to slow server response times. If your server is too slow, Googlebot abandons the crawl. It moves on to a faster website and leaves your pages unindexed.
You can fix individual settings, but you cannot fix a slow server. If you constantly fight technical errors, missing SSL certificates, and DNS routing issues, your foundation is broken.
You should consider moving away from basic shared hosting. Upgrading your infrastructure solves these crawling issues permanently. If you want to stop troubleshooting and start ranking, look into rebuilding it as a proper local business website on a dedicated server. This gives Google a fast, clean, and secure site to read every single time. If you want to understand the exact costs of upgrading your systems, you can review our pricing structure to see how we build reliable platforms.