Fetch for Google

[remkoallertz]

Hi there! A short question from Holland:

My developers made a mistake with a template on a subpage in Wordpress. When Google crawled my site again, Google found an empty page. The same day we loosed our #1 position on the main keyword and now we are on position #6.

We restored the page the same day and asked Google to recrawl the page again (fetch for Google). But 48 hours later nothing changed. When I look in the cache date' the page still has the old date, while my competition has a newer cache date. We send some traffic to the page and did some facebook post on this page. Does anybody knows how to kickstart this page again?

[remkoallertz]

Hi Martijn thanks, hope this will work.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Remko,

Auch I know the feeling, there was a similar topic last week in the Q&A from somebody who also wanted to get his page indexed a bit fast. One thing that got recommended which I really thought smart was post the URL on Google+ if you can. Facebook is pretty limited for Google to crawl so you probably will have a hard time to get Google to crawl your pages. Both Google+ (owned by Google) and Twitter are perfectly crawlable by Google so they should speed up the process to get your page at least crawled again. Then it will be up to Google to also refresh the cached file.

Hope this helps!