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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 ...

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.

Here are a list of Google Sitemap errors straight from the Webmaster Tools of Google. Compression error Empty Sitemap Invalid attribute value Invalid date Invalid tag value Invalid URL Invalid URL: We've detected that a Sitemap you've listed doesn't include the full URL. Invalid XML: too many tags Missing XML attribute Missing XML tag Nested indexing Parsing error Temporary error Too many Sitemaps Too many URLs Unsupported file format URL not allowed Paths don't match: We've detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that doesn't include the www prefix. Paths don't match: We've detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix. Incorrect namespace Leading whitespace A specific HTTP error ======== Additional Info from Google: Learn about sitemaps Build and submit a sitemap Updated: May 17, 2018

The following sample shows a Google Sitemap code in XML format: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset    xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84    http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd"> <url>    <loc>http://www.seocebu.com/</loc>    <lastmod>2007-04-02T03:06:58+00:00</lastmod>    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>    <priority>1</priority> </url> <url>    <loc>http://www.seocebu.com/category/announcements/</loc>    <lastmod>2007-04-02T11:06:58+00:00</lastmod>    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>    <priorit...

The Google Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded. The Sitemap must: Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag. Include a <url> entry for each URL as a parent XML tag. Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag. The available XML tags are described below. <urlset> Required. Encapsulates the file and references the current protocol standard. <url> Required Parent tag for each URL entry. The remaining tags are children of this tag. <loc> Required URL of the page. This URL must begin with the protocol (such as http) and end with a trailing slash, if your web server requires it. This value must be less than 2048 characters. <lastmod> Optional The date of last modification of the file. The accepted date formats are: Complete date: YYYY-MM-DD (eg 2007-03-16...

When the sitemap file of your website changes, you can resubmit it to Google to let them know about the updates of your pages. Resubmit your Sitemap in one of two ways: Sign into Google Sitemaps with your Google Account and from the "Sitemaps" tab, select the checkbox beside it and click the "Resubmit Selected" button. The Submitted date will update to reflect this latest submission. Send Google an HTTP request. If you do this, you don't need to use the "Resubmit" link in your Google Sitemaps Account. The Submitted column will continue to show the last time you manually clicked the link, but the Last Downloaded column will be updated to show the last time the Google system has fetched your Sitemap. To resubmit your Sitemap using an HTTP request: Issue your request to the following URL: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url For example, if your Sitemap is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz, your URL will b...

You can provide multiple Sitemap files, but each Sitemap file that you provide must have no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 10MB when uncompressed. These limits help to ensure that your web server does not get bogged down serving very large files. If you want to list more than 50,000 URLs, you must create multiple Sitemap files. If you anticipate your Sitemap growing beyond 50,000 URLs or 10MB, you should consider creating multiple Sitemap files. If you do provide multiple Sitemaps, you can list them in a Sitemap index file. A Sitemap index file can list up to 1,000 Sitemaps.

The first time you submit a Sitemap to Google (whether you created it using the Sitemap Generator, a third-party tool, or manually created it), you must submit it by adding it to your Google webmaster tools account. This enables Google to provide you with useful status and statistical information. From your account, you can see if there are problems with your Sitemap or with any of the URLs listed in it. If you are adding a Mobile Sitemap, you must specify the markup language for the URLs contained in the Sitemap. When you make changes to your Sitemap, you can resubmit it using your Google webmaster tools account or you can resubmit it using an HTTP request. These steps describe how to add a Sitemap that contains URLs for non-mobile content (this includes most websites). There are additional steps for Mobile Sitemaps. Once you have a Sitemap in one of the supported formats: Upload your Sitemap to your site in the highest level directory you want search engines to crawl, ge...

Need help on how to fix the supplemental index in Google ? Here are questions for you to analyze about the contents in all your web pages: Do you refresh it regularly? Are you careful not to over seed it with keywords? Does the content reflect and support the headlines, page title, and meta tags? Do your links conform to the best-linking practices described in the other articles in the Linking School? Are you sure that none of your links leads to questionable domains or bad neighborhoods? Do you add new links on a steady, incremental basis? If you are getting out-ranked by your own content pages, then it is very possible that you are in Google's Supplemental Index! You might be asking two simple questions: How did I get into the supplemental index? How do I get out of Google's supplemental index? Here are my speculations in your web pages: You have little unique text on your web pages (maybe a lot of images, and little text) Duplicate content - cop...

Google requires a sitemap file to websites for them to tell all the pages, information about those pages, which pages are the most important and how often they change. By submitting a Sitemap file to Google, you can take control of the first part of the crawling/indexing processes and that is to let Google discover your pages. This may be particularly helpful if your site has dynamic content, pages that aren't easily discovered by following links, or if your site is new and has few links to it. Sitemaps helps speed up the discovery of your pages, which is an important first step in crawling and indexing your pages, but there are many other factors that influence the crawling/indexing processes. Sitemaps lets you tell Google the information about your pages (which ones you think are most important, how often the pages change), so you can have a voice in these subsequent steps. Other factors include how many sites link to you, if your content is unique and relevant, if Google...