My azure website doesn't show up on search engines - asp.net

As the title says. I have an ASP.NET web application that I published to my azure account. I did a little SEO and it should show up somewhere on the search engines but it doesn't.
It doesn't even show up if I type in the address in the search field. It works fine when typing the URL in address field.
My azure subscription is "Pay-as-you-go".
Any tips or answers are appriciated!
Thanks!

My answer mainly pertains to Google. How long have you waited? It's my experience that it takes a few days to a week minimum to start showing up (if you're using Google sign up for their web master tools and when you submit your site you can see when it's indexed and what pages are indexed which is important because they may skip content they deem is duplicated elsewhere whether it is or not). It's also my experience (using Azure) that sub domains on "azurewebsites.net" end up with poor SEO but if I have a full domain on my site it ranks much higher.
I also assumed that you submitted the site to the search engines, if you haven't site up for a web master account and do that (Bing and Google both have these).
http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
In Google you can also search specifically for your site to see what comes back which will indicate that others can get to your stuff (even if it's buried 100 pages deep in other searches):
site:[your site].azurewebsites.net

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How to check search results of website on google?

I am working on a website "https://datasiplus.com".
When i type datasiplus on google, i get as 3rd result this url "https://datasiplus.com.cutestat.com/".
Is it normal ?
Can it be the cause for my website having unwanted popup ads ?
How to check search results of website on google?
You can see all indexed pages from your website (domain) if you go to google search and type the following
site:datasiplus.com
cutestat.com is it normal?
This page is a tool to get information about a specific domain. It's estimating the value, traffic and lot more. Either this tool has automatically crawled your page or someone searched for your domain with it.
There is a form on their site, where you can request to remove your domain from cutestat.com here
So yes, it's normal that this is in google index because it's like a subpage of their tool and datasiplus is a keyword for both sites, yours and datasiplus.com.cutestat.com
If you go to google now and search for datasiplus, then you can already see your own question there.
Can it be the cause for my website having unwanted popup ads?
No, this page will not cause unwanted popup ads on your page (or any other page).
Popups like this is most probably caused by malware on your page. This may be introduced through some security holes in wordpress and / or from one of the plugins you are using.
To get started to search and remove such malware, you can start at this SO question

Getting Strange Google Analytics URL Data

I recently opened up my google analytics and looked at the behavior panel all pages in depth for the first time and I noticed some strange pages such as:
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I have a site that uses wordpress in the cloud and I have scanned with wordfence saying that my site is clean.
Was wondering if I should look deeper, or if this behavioral page is normal.
Amobee and Flashtalking are both advertising platforms, so it looks somebody has configured advertising tags incorrectly. Probably those clicks should be routed through the respective platforms (e.g. to record data for bid management or something like that) and instead they go directly to your page with redirect Urls appended. If you do paid advertising then you should check with the people who configured this for you.

Telling Google to index a new page, without using Webmaster Tools

I have a WordPress site that generates a single page site for users from some fields they enter into a form and some images they upload. I want to get Google to come out and index the page but my users will not be technical enough to set their page up with Webmaster Tools. What can I do from WordPress when I build the page to tell Google a new page is up and to please come out and index it when they have a chance?
Well you don't have to do anything actually, you could just sit back and wait for it to happen naturally. However there are things you could do to speed up the indexing process.
Here's a suggested way that does not involve having your users do anything:
Create one or more (quality) links pointing to their single page site from other websites that you know are already indexed in Google (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsB19wTt0Q for more information). Ideally on blogs that get updated frequently because then then it is likely google crawls them more frequently.
Use a site:domain.com search in Google to see whether google has already found your new pages.
Here is how google crawling and indexing works:
Crawling:
Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and
updated pages to be added to the Google index.
We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages
on the web. The program that does the fetching is called Googlebot
(also known as a robot, bot, or spider). Googlebot uses an algorithmic
process: computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often,
and how many pages to fetch from each site.
Google's crawl process begins with a list of web page URLs, generated
from previous crawl processes, and augmented with Sitemap data
provided by webmasters. As Googlebot visits each of these websites it
detects links on each page and adds them to its list of pages to
crawl. New sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted
and used to update the Google index.
Google doesn't accept payment to crawl a site more frequently, and we
keep the search side of our business separate from our
revenue-generating AdWords service.
Indexing:
Googlebot processes each of the pages it crawls in order to
compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on
each page. In addition, we process information included in key content
tags and attributes, such as Title tags and ALT attributes. Googlebot
can process many, but not all, content types. For example, we cannot
process the content of some rich media files or dynamic pages
Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/70897?hl=en

Changed content type leading to wrong crawls by google

In our website built on WordPress, we changed name of one of our Custom Post type from 'A' to 'B' and also changed hierarchy of few categories.
Now, the problem is that google is indexing/crawling the old 'A' CPT Name and also old catgeory structure, which is leading to either random pages (because WordPress makes guess and shows page with those keywords in URL) or 404 errors.
What can we do (via Webmaster Tools) to make google re-index our whole site and start honoring our new structure? Thanks.
Here is the brief explanation of the Google's indexing policy:
The process
The crawl process begins with a list of web addresses from past crawls and sitemaps provided by website owners. As Google crawlers visit these websites, they look for links for other pages to visit. The software pays special attention to new sites, changes to existing sites and dead links.
Computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often and how many pages to fetch from each site. Google doesn't accept payment to crawl a site more frequently for your web search results. They care more about having the best possible results because in the long run that's what's best for users and, therefore, their business.
Choice for website owners
Most websites don't need to set up restrictions for crawling, indexing or serving, so their pages are eligible to appear in search results without having to do any extra work.
That said, site owners have many choices about how Google crawls and indexes their sites through Webmaster Tools and a file called “robots.txt”. With the robots.txt file, site owners can choose not to be crawled by Google bot or they can provide more specific instructions about how to process pages on their sites.
Site owners have granular choices and can choose how content is indexed on a page-by-page basis. For example, they can opt to have their pages appear without a snippet (the summary of the page shown below the title in search results) or a cached version (an alternate version stored on Google's servers in case the live page is unavailable). Web-masters can also choose to integrate search into their own pages with Custom Search.
Read more here and here.

Does automatic redirection/geo-location have impact on my SEO? - Detect if its a spider that is accessing site

I have a site who's search ranking has plumetted. It should be quite SEO friendly because its built using XHtml/CSS and has been run against the SEO toolkit.
The only thing I can think that may be annoying Google is
The keywords are the same accross the whole site rather than being page specific. (cant see why this would be a massive deal
Another URL has been set up that simply points to my site (without redirecting) (again - no big deal)
Non UK users are automatically forwaded onto the US version of the site which is a different brand. I guess this could be the problem. If google spiders my site from the US then it will never get the UK version
So the question is, does geo redirecting setting effect my SEO? Is it possible to detect if who is accessing your site is actually a search engine that is spidering my site. In this case I don't want to do any geo-location
Do not use same keywords on entire site. Try to use specific keywords per page.
Do not let several URL:s point directly to the same site since this will cause the inlinks from the different domains to be treated as to different domains. If you point URLs by redirect, all inlinks will be added to the target domain and thus increase it's "inlink score".
To detect is request is from a crawler, use the browsercaps project: http://owenbrady.net/browsercaps/

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