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Wix site not showing on Google? A step-by-step fix

Checked against the sources below on 20 September 2026.

Wix publishes its own list of reasons a site or page might not appear in search results. This guide puts that list in an order you can work through in about half an hour, fastest checks first.

We checked Wix's help pages on 20 September 2026. Menu names can change, so if a label looks different, look for the closest match.

Start with the two switches

Wix lets you turn off search indexing for the whole site and for individual pages. A site can have the site-wide setting on and still hide single pages by accident.

  1. In your Wix dashboard, go to SEO & GEO, scroll to Tools and settings, and click SEO Settings.
  2. Make sure "Let search engines index your site" is switched on.
  3. Open each page that is missing from Google in the editor, open its SEO settings, and make sure search engines are allowed to index it.

Then rule out things that quietly block a page

  • The page is not published. Search engines can only index pages you have published, so publish after every change.
  • The page was deleted. Deleted pages drop out of search results when search engines next visit. Site History can restore one.
  • A 301 redirect is active. Check the URL Redirect Manager in your SEO & GEO settings and delete the redirect if it shouldn't be there.
  • The canonical tag points elsewhere. If it was customised, reset it to the default in the Advanced SEO settings.
  • A noindex tag is on the page. Wix says the noindex robots tag tells search engines not to index a page. Find it and remove it.
  • The page is password protected. Search engines can't index password-protected pages.

Then check the content and the links

  • Thin pages. Wix says pages without enough content can return a soft 404 error, and recommends at least 250 to 400 words on a page.
  • No internal links. Link to each page from other pages on your site, so search engines can find it.
  • Language redirects. Wix notes that language-based redirects can make it harder for search engines to crawl each language version. Review your multilingual setup if you use one.
  • Quality guidelines or a manual action. Content that doesn't meet Google's guidelines can keep a page out. Search Console's manual actions report shows whether Google has taken action against your site.

Connect Search Console and submit your sitemap

Wix creates your sitemap for you and keeps it up to date. You can see it by adding /sitemap.xml to your domain. When you connect your site to Google through the Wix SEO Setup Checklist, Wix submits the sitemap to Google for you.

To submit it yourself, open Google Search Console, choose your site, select Sitemaps, enter sitemap.xml and click Submit. Then inspect a missing page and read the exact status Google gives. "Discovered, currently not indexed" and "Crawled, currently not indexed" mean different things, and the fix for each is different.

When it isn't a setting

If every setting is right, you are in the same position as any new site: Google decides what to index and when. Google describes "Crawled, currently not indexed" as a page that was crawled but not added, which may or may not be indexed in future. That suggests the problem is the page and not a setting. Ask whether it is different and useful enough compared with what already appears for that search.

If you'd like us to go through it, our Fix & Launch service starts at $450. We work through this list and the technical layer underneath, fix what can be fixed inside Wix, and tell you honestly when a limit of the platform is the problem and a rebuild would be cheaper than working around it.

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