Mohammed Yousuf's Blog Posts Tagged 'website' (2)

For that reason, to show up in Google, three things need to be true:

1. Google knows that your website exists and can find and access all your important pages.
2. You have a page that’s a relevant result for the keyword you want to show up for.
3. You’ve demonstrated to Google that your page is worthy of ranking for your target search query—more so than any other page from another website.

Most of the issues we tackle below relate to one of these three…

It’s important to note that when you type something into Google hoping to see your website in the search results, you’re not actually looking for your website.

You’re looking for a page on your website.

That’s an important distinction.

If Google doesn’t know about the existence of the page you’re trying to rank or thinks it doesn’t deserve to rank, then it won’t show up anywhere that matters in the search results.…