Google indexed exactly ZERO of my pages after 2 weeks. Is this normal or am I doing something stupid?
Hey IH 👋
I launched my new SaaS 2 weeks ago and Google Search Console has indexed exactly ZERO pages. Not one. Sitemap submitted? Check. Robots.txt configured? Check. Pages tested live and readable? Check. But still, absolute silence.
A little context: I built this project because I kept losing customer leads to silent webhook failures in my previous setups. You'd get 100 form submissions, but only 87 would successfully hit the CRM/workflows. The other 13 just vanished into thin air — no alerts, no logs, no retries. So I built an AI form builder that integrates auto-retry backoffs and real-time delivery logs natively. The core product works great and our early test users love it.
What doesn't work great: getting Google (or anyone else) to actually see the site.
Here are the current cold-start stats:
- ~11 active sessions/day (72% are labeled as "Unassigned" in GA4 — I honestly have no idea where they are coming from)
- 3 directory submissions (BetaList, Launching Next, PitchWall) — all currently pending review
- Blog posts published: 3. Google's indexation index: 🙃
I know 2 weeks is a drop in the ocean. I know SEO takes months of compounding effort. But man, checking GSC every single morning only to see that flatline is psychologically brutal.
For those who have survived this early ghost-town phase:
- How long did it actually take Google to index your first batch of dynamic / dynamic-rendered pages?
- Did directory submissions actually bring you any early traffic, or should I treat them purely as a long-term backlink play?
- What was the one tiny, unexpected thing you did that brought in your very first organic, non-friend user?
I’m not looking for hacks or shortcuts — just trying to figure out if I’ve messed up something fundamentally on the technical SEO side, or if this is just the mandatory "sit and wait" tax every solo founder has to pay.
Appreciate any advice or sanity checks you guys can share 🙏
Edit: For context, the site is GenForms (I'm sharing it solely so technical SEO folks can inspect if my rendering/sitemap is broken, not as a plug!)
I bought the domain csvtools.com from an expired godaddy auction in December and published the site in late February. You can see the changelog to see when pages were added to the site. I think the homepage got indexed within days, but all of the tool pages took much longer to get indexed. Here's the timeline:
Mar 14 - submitted sitemap to GSC
Apr 1 - 10 pages indexed
May 1 - 10 pages
May 11 - 15 pages
May 18 - 40 pages
May 22 - 57 pages
May 25 - 63 pages
There are still another 44 pages that haven't been indexed yet. And many of the indexed pages are not getting meaningful impressions or clicks. Most of the traction is from variations of "csv tools".
So basically took 2 months to start getting any SEO traction at all, and still not much after that. I've also done exactly zero to grow it other than buy an exact match .com domain.
TLDR: 2 weeks is probably not enough time to see any SEO traction.
Yeah, that's really slow — SEO just takes time. We both need to be patient and wait it out. Good luck to both of us! Would love to swap notes as we both figure this out.
This may be a technical indexing issue, but I’d be careful not to make Google the whole diagnosis yet.
At this stage, zero indexed pages feels brutal, but the bigger risk is waiting on SEO when the product may need a sharper first-user path outside search.
The webhook failure pain is specific and real. The question is whether your next move should be technical SEO cleanup, directory patience, or a more direct path to people already losing form leads.
I wouldn’t solve that loosely in-thread because the wrong diagnosis can cost you weeks.
If you’re open to it, share your email and I’ll put the tighter cold-start read together properly.
Really appreciate this — you're right that I shouldn't tunnel-vision on Google. The "which problem to solve first" framing is exactly what I needed to hear.
The webhook angle is interesting because that's actually what our product does — reliable form-to-webhook delivery with logs and retries. But you're right that the path to people already losing form leads might be more direct than waiting on search.
I'd love that cold-start read. My email is [email protected]. Thanks for not just dropping a generic "submit your sitemap" reply 😄
Sent you a note by email. Main thing is deciding whether GenForms should wait on search or find people already losing form leads.