Most of my articles on Google made it to page 1 on Google
I just found out that most of my website articles posted on Google+ made it to page #1 on Google! I am very excited but don't understand why they are ranking as Google+ articles instead of website articles. Any suggestions. Also one of my site articles made it to page #3 on Google! Happy Days!
I wish you all an amazing weekend, and some of you a great LONG weekend. Enjoy the end of the summer....I am planning to do the same. Best wishes.
Grace
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This largely because Google spends more time on this social site than your website. (that is NOT the best technical answer, but it is indeed, and imperfectly, very close for our purposes.)
A better answer is they do 'crawl' Google+ more often than a lot of other sites.
Thank you for the explanation Mickey. What can I do to ensure that the same articles from my site (not just from Google+) rank on page #1 on Google?
Hi Grace I just noticed your question, I'm above in my comment to you. I checked for you and answered that in my message. I have to send you the URL's by PM because the URL's are too long and I couldn't send it.
Hi Mickey! sorry I had to answer, your reply was right below the comment I was writing up, so I went to go answer there since I just finished leaving it in my comment anyway :)
Hi Grace this happened to most of us including myself. It's a false result, I wrote 2 blog posts about it making other members aware.
Did you check in Incognito mode? for the true results. Try that first.
I'll leave you the link here: Googles False First Page Result. Yes False. Enjoy your long weekend also thanks!
O! That's not good. Thank you for the info. So only the one from my website that ranked on page# 3 on Google shows the real ranking?
You are welcome Grace.
Did you check the one from your website that ranked on page 3 in Incognito mode?
Hi, thats your website, I need the specific post URL.
I noticed your website isn't secure.
Is your SiteSSL(Https) turned on? It doesn't look that way.
In siteManager where it shows SitePlus+ click on it and a list of 3 things are listed they should all be turned 'on'.
I just took this screen shot to show you my 'rank' results with the keywords 'purses and handbags', both Google+ recent posts.
I checked in incognito and they aren't there.
It's close to 1:00am here already, I should go for now.
Let me know if you need help with changing your http:// to https:// so your website will be secure. Even if you do have your SiteSSL(Https) on, you will have to check each page and post URL to see if they all have it. If not, you need to install the SSL Insecure Conent Fixer plugin to help change them over. Pain in the butt, I had to go through it.
Thank you so much for this information. Only 1 out of # was ON. Now all of them are ON. I really appreciate your help Patsy.
Sorry for the confusion:
https://travelwithgracie.com/lions-head-canada-perfect-town-from-which-to-explore-beautiful-bruce-peninsula
https://travelwithgracie.com/hornblower-cruises-niagara-falls-definitely-the-way-to-get-wet
https://travelwithgracie.com/animals-in-kruger-national-park-and-more
https://travelwithgracie.com/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-rome-find-out-more-before-you-go-2
https://travelwithgracie.com/snorkeling-in-tobago
First 4 were showing Google+ Page 1 rank, last one was showing Google page 3 rank.
Thank you Patsy for checking this for me.
Grace
You are welcome! I'm used to checking the website to see if it's secure ever since I changed mine, then noticed yours.
One thing though, I had 3 original pages that did not have the green padlock even after I turned it on.
Check all of your pages and posts and let me know if any are missing the green padlock it's common for this to happen. If there are I will let you know what to do :)
Thanks I know what it's like to get great help once in a while :)
Don't apologize, we have lots on the go. I asked for the keywords entered, but it's ok I figured it out.
I entered 'travel with gracie' for the keywords it doesn't work with the whole URL..and this is the result. I'll leave you the link. There are images and facebook, not sure if they are yours.
This search is in 'Incognito' mode, scroll down a bit and 3 are on the first page...click on the 2nd page and I don't see any more, but other pages might have some.
*****sorry I couldn't attach the URL for the page, WA left a note that the URL is too long in width so I saved it and will PM it to you.
This search is from my 'own browser', one is at the bottom of the first page, a couple on the second page....
*****sorry I couldn't attach the URL for the page, WA left a note that the URL is too long in width so I saved it and will PM it to you
Both same search but look at the URL. Funny, I thought they would be identical, but the same information is there.
Notice how NONE of them are from Google+. As you see in the screenshot I sent for mine. Those are NOT real, if you have not cleared you cache history, Google adds them from that memory that only you can see.
This is excellent because both on my own laptop and browser and in Incognito mode show they are actually RANKED! for real :)
Congratulations Gracie!
Do you know how to check in Incognito mode? and
Do you know how I did this search, so you can do it.
I checked this way all the time especially when I have added a new post to see if it got indexed after I publish it. Sometimes it gets indexed right away.
Hi Grace, this was the message I sent you back then, but the URLs were too long to post here and then I sent them to you in the PM.
You are welcome I was happy to help :)
Congratulations grace. I'd go to the google helpdesk on the issue!
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1047213
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It happens to me all the time, but who knows exactly how Google thinks, I think Mikey hit it on the head. Good to know that you are getting rank, congrats.