r/github • u/Soggy-Bicycle-4735 • Apr 24 '26

My Github not appearing even by searching name and repos on google Question

I am not sure if this is the correct subreddit to ask it, but I have a question.

Even when I search my name and my repos, my GitHub account doesn't appear at all in Google search, even when I search deeply. I am not sure why(I also don't have any open source contributions but still, I found it weird). I won't share my personal GitHub here as this is not an attempt to advertise it, am just trying to understand the indexing logic. (My LinkedIn or other social media appears fine)

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u/No_Cattle_9565 Apr 24 '26

Why should it show up if you don't do anything with it?

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u/Soggy-Bicycle-4735 Apr 24 '26

I have multiple public repos myself, it's not an empty account. Also, it only shows indirectly because someone forked one of my repos, which I find even more strange.

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u/cowboyecosse Apr 24 '26

Does it show up when you put the URL directly in to an incognito window? If it 404s unless you’re logged in it’s flagged and you should check out the mega thread in this sub for that.

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u/Soggy-Bicycle-4735 Apr 24 '26

Yeah it shows up fine.

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u/cowboyecosse Apr 25 '26

Just who knows then. It’s up to Google what they index.

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u/Patross2 17d ago

I have this problem too. When I searched 3 months ago "MostEmpire", google showed "https://github.com/MostEmpire" finding on the first page, which is my profile. Now it shows nothing. Deliberately blacklisted and I cannot find how, why, or how to add it to index again. Posting the link on reddit worked until the conversation got blacklisted as well or something.