How to make sure google indexes your site
To get google to start indexing my websiteI verified my ownership of site with google to make sure it starts indexing it https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080 using directions provided here. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6149686?hl=en
noindexHere is an issue I faced. After verifying my ownership I logged into google search console to check on the performance. I saw this warning To debug this I followed instructions here
The problem was that the default ananke theme I had used was adding a noindex which I confirmed by checking the source html.