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This is most likely a WiX configuration issue. The HTML source for https://www.catbartlett.com.au/ contains

  <meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>

Maybe try https://support.wix.com/en/article/enabling-search-engines-e... ?

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The website also gets a 0/100 pagescore [1] because of "noindex". Plus the <title> tag has a single word "design"...nothing about the contents of the site. It only's mention of "Cat Bartlett Graphic Design" 1x and is in an <h5> tag halfway down the page (not repeat anywhere nor in an H1 tag.

No wonder google can't find it. This is SEO 101 that Google will tell you how to fix for free.

[1] https://sitechecker.pro/seo-report/https://www.catbartlett.c...

Ironically for a site seemingly dedicated to checking other sites, it's unusable on mobile (especially after the over-wide and unscrollable "create an account" modal takes over)

On google mobile is actually a factor in page ranking, if you're not mobile friendly you won't rank. Obviously this person needs some help w/ their website, if they were on wordpress with a good mobile theme, and good page load they'd definitely be ranked first for that serp.

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