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The Sharing Debugger tool of Facebook will let you preview how your content will look when shared to Facebook and debug any issues with your Open Graph tags. Here are the steps on how to clear the Facebook share cache: 1. Go to  https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ 2. Provide the URL that you want Facebook to clear when shared 3. If there are " Warnings That Should Be Fixed ," recommending that you fix these warnings if possible. Sample warnings: 4. Click " Scrape Again " to clear the Facebook Share Cache

1. Login to Google Search Console. 2. Go to " Google Index " then click " Remove URLs. " 3. Click " Temporary Hide " 4. Provide the page URL of the webpage to be hidden. 5. Click option " Temporarily hide page from search results and remove from cache " There are 3 options for you to choose from: Temporarily hide page from search results and remove from cache Remove page from cache only Temporarily hide directory 6. Click "Submit Requests"

Here are instances on why you need to ask Google to recrawl your website: 1. If you created a new webpage or updated an existing page on your website, the Fetch as Google tool can reindex it. This request indexing feature is a convenient method for easily requesting indexing few URLs. 2. If you have a large number of URLs to submit, it is recommended to submit a sitemap. Or resubmit a sitemap file perhaps. These are the criteria for a successful request indexing using Fetch as Google only for a fetch: 1. The fetch must have a complete, partial, or redirected fetch status. 2. The fetch cannot be more than 4 hours old. Here are the steps on how to do it: 1. Login to Google Search Console. 2. Go to " Crawl " then " Fetch as Google " 3. Input the specific URL that you want to request for indexing excluding the domain link. 4. Select if you want to reindex for " Desktop " or " Mobile: Smartphone " 5. Click " Fetch "

Before following the guide below, the website that you're going to add must be an live domain. How to Add Your Website on Google Search Console 1. Go to Google Search Console and login: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en 2. Click the " Add a Property " button 3. Input the website URL 4. Click " Add " How to Verify your Website on Google There are two methods to verify a website: A. Recommended Method - Upload an HTML to your website. Here are the steps: 1. Download the HTML verification file. 2. Upload the file to your root directory. 3. Confirm successful upload by visiting the URL in your browser. Such as: http://www.yourdomain.com/provided-html-from-google.html 4. Click the " Verify " button. To stay verified, don't remove the HTML file, even after verification succeeds. If you have access to the FTP, I would recommend doing this. B. Alternate Method -  Choose one of the options below then

Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being advertisements. It is important to choose targeted, relevant text as it will be visible to readers. Here is a guide on how to pick keywords to a website content: 1. exact-match target keyword  2. co-occurrence - building relevancy without exact match keyword; best to be applied when creating title tags 3. LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) - variations of your main keyword You can use this free tool: https://lsigraph.com 3.1 GOOGLE SUGGEST OPTIONS  (drop down keywords from search box) 3.2 RELATED SEARCHES OPTIONS (bottom of the search results) You can either use Google’s suggest options in the search bar, “Searched related to ___” at the bottom of the search results 3.3 GOOGLE KEYWORD PLANNER (via adwords) Login to Google Adwords and visit this link: https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner 4. partial-match k

Having keywords on domain names is a good old practice of SEO. With the latest trends today, we go for branding. Then we’ll leave it up on how a website is optimized and marketed online. Here are things to consider before purchasing a domain: Avoid numbers and hyphens. Hyphens are associated with spam websites and should be avoided. Have keywords, placed as prefixes or suffixes to grab attention. Preferably 2-3 words on your domain. Use the .com domain extension – the .com still carries the most trust with it. Unless you are an organization, it makes sense to use .org. Keeping it short and memorable – minimal risk of typo errors and misspells. Make it unique – domain is part of your brand. Additional information: It is best to have SSL certificates for all domains. Whether your website is e-commerce or not. Google continues to work with websites that are secure by default. HTTPS websites load much faster than HTTP sites, and sites with faster speeds are more likely t

I have been tracking every Google compliance that I perform. Here are situations and results of such actions: How long it will take for Google to index a new domain? If a website will comply with the Google Search Console requirements, a new domain will be indexed after two business days. When will Google start to index the entire website?  If a website will comply with the Google Search Console requirements and the domain is already indexed in the SERPS, the other URLS will be indexed starting the next 5 days and will stop till the rest of the pages are listed in the SERPS. How long will it take for Google to index a new webpage?  If a new URL will be submitted to the Fetch as Google tool, it will be indexed after two business days. How long will Google remove “This site may be hacked” message in the SERPS?  If a website will comply with the Google Search Console clean up requirements to the URLs concerned, the message will be removed after two business days. How long wi

When you see “This site may be hacked” upon viewing the search results of your website in Google, here is the way on how to fix it: In the “ Security Issues ” section of Search Console, we submit the URLs which Google notifies with that message.  We check those URLs if there are no malicious code or content and/or proper redirects should be done to correct them. Once we see that it’s clean, we use the “ Fetch as Google ” tool to submit those URLs and to see the pages as Google sees them. When all steps are done, we will file a “ Reconsideration Request ” to remove this manual action. After two business days of submission and if Google reconsiders our request, the “This site may be hacked” notification will be removed.

Aside from performing on-page SEO, Off-page SEO is the also an important contributor that drives traffic to a website. The off-page search ranking factors are those that publishers do not directly control. This refers to a series of online marketing techniques that can improve your website’s rank which are done outside of your website. This involves link building which refers to relevant websites pointing to your website. To name a few link building techniques: Local SEO - This is the submission of your website to various local directories and more. Making sure that the NAP (name, address and phone plus the website URL) of your business will appear in the local listings primarily. Directory Listings -  This is a category based directory submission wherein you can submit to more than one category per website niche. Being listed on Google My Business, Google Maps, Yelp, YellowPages and creating a Facebook Page are some of the great sources for you to gain online traffic. Google M

200 OK - This is a server response code that indicates a successful load of a webpage. 301 Redirect – Also called Permanent Redirect. This is a method telling web browsers and search engines that a webpage or website has been permanently moved to a new location. 301 redirects send site visitors and search engines to a different URL than the one they originally typed into their browser or selected from a search engine results page. 302 Redirect - Also called Temporary Redirect. This is a method telling web browsers and search engines that a webpage or website has been temporarily moved to a new location. It is the least requested redirect. 404 Not Found – This is an error message displayed on a browser which tells you that the webpage you are visiting cannot be found. Either it has been deleted or the page has been moved, etc. Algorithm – this is a process which composes a set of rules defined to be able to solve problems. This is how search engines discover pages on the inter