Why is my Wix site not showing up on Google?

Most Wix sites that are missing from Google are missing for one of a handful of reasons, and the first one is a single switch in your dashboard. Check that before you rewrite anything, buy anything, or assume Google has taken against you.

One thing you can rule out straight away: Wix says its sites can be crawled and indexed whether or not they are on a paid plan. A free Wix site is not invisible because it is free.

If you want a second opinion while you read, paste your homepage into the free indexability checker. It looks at the page the way Google's crawler meets it and stops at the first thing in the way.

First, work out which problem you have

Search Google for site:yourdomain.com, with your own address and nothing else. This is a rough test, not a precise one, but it answers the first question well enough.

• Nothing at all comes back. Google has not indexed the site. Work through the list below from the top.
• Some pages come back, but not the one you wanted. Skip to the page-level checks.
• Your pages come back, but not when you search for what you sell. You are indexed and not ranking. That is a different problem, covered at the end.

1. "Let search engines index your site" is switched off

This is the site-wide setting, and when it is off, Wix asks every search engine to leave your whole site out of its results. It is sometimes switched off on purpose while a site is being built, and then forgotten.

1. Open your site's dashboard and go to the SEO section (currently labelled SEO & GEO).
2. Scroll down to Tools and settings and click SEO Settings.
3. Make sure the Let search engines index your site toggle is on.

Under the hood, this is a noindex instruction, and search engines obey it. Turning it back on does not bring you back instantly; Google has to visit again and notice.

2. The page itself is hidden from search

Wix also has a per-page version of the same switch, which is how one page can vanish while the rest of the site is fine. In the Wix Editor:

1. Open Pages & Menu on the left.
2. Click the More Actions icon next to the page and choose SEO basics.
3. Check that Let search engines index this page is on.
4. Publish the site.

In the Studio Editor the route is the same, except the panel on the left is called Pages. That last step matters more than it looks: Wix is clear that search engines can only see what you have published. Edits sitting in the editor do not exist as far as Google is concerned.

3. The page is behind a password or a members area

Search engines cannot index pages that are password protected or visible only to logged-in members. If your homepage is one of them, that can hold back the whole site, because the homepage is usually where Google starts.

Some pages genuinely belong behind a login. Just make sure the ones you want customers to find are not among them.

4. A redirect or a canonical tag is sending Google elsewhere

Two settings quietly tell Google "the real page is somewhere else", and Google tends to believe them.

• A redirect. If an old redirect points the page's address at another page, Google follows it and indexes the destination instead. Check your redirects and remove any that should not be there.
• A changed canonical tag. In SEO basics for the page, open the Advanced SEO tab, then Additional Tags. If the canonical has been edited, Wix lets you choose Reset to Default.

What a canonical tag does, and how it goes wrong →

5. The page has almost nothing on it

A page with a heading, a photo and two sentences gives Google very little reason to store it. Wix's own guidance recommends at least 250–400 words on a page, which is a reasonable floor rather than a magic number. What matters more is that the page says something specific that another page on your site does not.

Linking to the page from elsewhere on your site helps too. A page nothing links to looks unimportant, to people and to crawlers alike.

Why thin pages get skipped →

6. The site is new, or Google has not been told about it

If none of the above applies, the most likely answer is time. Wix notes that how long indexing takes is decided by the search engines and is the same for every website, not just Wix ones. For a brand new domain with nothing linking to it, a few weeks is ordinary.

You can help Google find the site faster. Wix's SEO Setup Checklist connects your site to Google and submits your sitemap for you, and the sitemap updates itself after that. Once your site is in Google Search Console, the URL Inspection tool will tell you, page by page, whether it is indexed and if not, why. If it says "Crawled – currently not indexed", that is a quality judgement rather than a setting: the page usually needs to be more substantial or less like another page on your site.

If you are indexed but nobody finds you

If your pages appear for your business name but not for "plumber in Leeds" or whatever you sell, none of the settings above are your problem. You are in the index and losing to pages Google thinks answer the search better. That is fixed slowly, by being more useful on a specific subject than the pages above you, and no toggle in any website builder changes it. The general version of this guide covers that side in more detail.

The five-minute version

1. Search site:yourdomain.com to see whether anything is indexed at all.
2. Check Let search engines index your site under SEO Settings.
3. Check Let search engines index this page in the missing page's SEO basics.
4. Publish, and make sure the page is not behind a password or members area.
5. Complete the SEO Setup Checklist so Google has your sitemap, then give it time.

Checked against Wix's own help pages on 13 October 2026. Menus move; if yours looks different, Wix's guides to managing search engine indexing, the page SEO panel and pages not appearing in search results have the current route.

If you would rather have the technical half checked in one go, run a free audit below. It tests for noindex, robots.txt, canonicals and broken pages, and tells you which one applies.