5 Tasks After Launching a Website to Get Visitors

Here are the 5 tasks after launching a website to get visitors: set up Google Search Console, submit a sitemap, add an llms.txt file, add Open Graph tags, and set up Bing Webmaster Tools. None of them is hard. You can finish all five in one sitting.

The problem: you launched, and nothing happens

You built the site and told a few people. Then you waited.

Search for your own site name and it’s nowhere. Paste your link into WhatsApp or LinkedIn and you get a plain link with no picture and no title. Check your stats and they sit close to zero.

Feels like the site is broken. Usually it isn’t.

The cause: nobody knows your site exists yet

Putting a site online doesn’t tell search engines about it. A live page and a findable page are two different things.

Google and Bing have to be told where your site is and which pages matter. Social apps rely on a few hidden tags to decide what picture and title to show. Without those, your site just sits there, even if the design is great.

Say you search for your site and find nothing. A likely reason is that Google hasn’t indexed your pages yet, and you haven’t connected Search Console to check. That’s task one below.

The minimum fix: 5 tasks after launching a website to get visitors

Do these in order.

1. Set up Google Search Console and check indexing. Add your site to Search Console and verify that you own it. Follow the steps Google shows you on screen. Next, run the URL inspection tool on your home page. It shows whether Google has indexed that page.

Don’t keep rewriting your pages because “Google can’t see them.” Check first. You may be fixing the wrong thing.

1. Submit your XML sitemap. A sitemap is a file that lists your pages. Many website builders and SEO plugins make one for you. Look in your builder’s settings, or add /sitemap.xml to the end of your domain and see if one exists. If you find it, paste its address into the Sitemaps section in Search Console and submit it.

Avoid building a sitemap by hand and uploading several versions. One correct file is enough. Not sure which address is right? Check your builder’s documentation.

1. Add an llms.txt file for AI tools. This is a plain text file that gives AI tools a short, clear guide to your site. Say what your business does and which pages matter most.

Be realistic about it. llms.txt is not a ranking hack, and it won’t push you up Google. It’s a tidy way to help AI tools understand your site. If someone offers you traffic from it, don’t pay.

1. Add Open Graph tags for link previews. Open Graph tags control what appears when someone shares your link: a title, a short description and an image. At minimum, set og:title, og:description and og:image on each important page. Most builders and SEO plugins have fields for these.

Once they’re in, paste your link into a chat app or social post and look at what shows up. A bare link means the tags aren’t on the page yet. Some apps remember old previews, so check how the platform you’re using refreshes them.

One more thing to avoid: the same picture and text on every page. Your pricing page and your blog post shouldn’t look identical when shared.

1. Set up Bing Webmaster Tools. Add your site to Bing Webmaster Tools and verify it, the same way you did with Google. Submit your sitemap there too. After that, use it to watch indexing and performance.

Lots of people skip Bing. Don’t. It takes a few minutes.

When all five are done, check Search Console and Bing now and then. Look for pages that aren’t indexed and for errors. If something’s wrong, fix that one thing and re-check. Change one thing at a time so you know what worked.

When to get help instead

If both tools verify your site and the sitemap goes through, you’re fine on your own. That’s a normal setup.

Get help if you’re stuck on any of these:

You can’t verify the site in Search Console or Bing.
Your sitemap is rejected and you can’t tell why.
Search Console says pages aren’t indexed and the reason it gives makes no sense to you.
Your Open Graph tags won’t show up no matter what you try, especially if the site was built with AI tools or a half-finished template.

When the error messages stop making sense, stop guessing. Random changes can make things worse.

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