Ranked on Google in minutes

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When I first started, I was always eager to check my content rankings soon as I published my contents. However, new contents don't always get indexed by Google immediately.

Thanks to another member in WA (thanks Edy), I've learned to get my new contents ranked within minutes. Here's how it's done:

Step 1 - Fetch as Google

Assuming that you have added your site to Google Search Console (if you haven't, refer to Google's own guide here https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/60011...), you can go to Crawl > Fetch as Google:

Step 2 - Provide your latest URL

You should see a box like shown below:

For example, my latest post was http://mastermyfinance.com/is-online-success-plan-... but since the domain name has been pre-populated for me, I only key in the rest of the URL as shown - "is-online-success-plan-a-scam/".

Click FETCH.

Step 3 - Submit your new URL

It should only take a few seconds to fetch your new URL. Once it's done, you'll see the new URL being added below the box:

Click "Submit to Index". Choose "Crawl only this URL" when the pop-up appears.

Step 4 - Check your new URL in Google

Wait for a few minutes and fire up an incognito browser. I usually use incognito for this to make sure my browser cache doesn't interfere and that I'm seeing what everyone else is seeing.

Change Google search settings to display 100 results. We could be ranked beyond page 1 and it'll be hard to find your site if you only limit your search results to 10 per page. Type in your keyword.

At the time of writing this blog post, my latest content was published 16 hours ago. However, it was ranked within minutes when i submitted the post to Google with this method.

Edit: I've created a new blog post since then, and it took only 43 seconds before it appeared in search results.

Additional notes:

Make sure to check your Google index status every few weeks in search console under Google Index > Index Status.

It's a good sign if you see steady increase in index status over time. It means Google has no problem crawling your pages and there are no dropped URLs.