Facebook and SEO

[PlanetDISH]

Hello, recently we've noticed my companies Facebook page (www.facebook.com/dishcostsless) is not being crawled by Google. When you type in DISH Costs Less Facebook it does not show up, even when you type in the exact URL there are no search results. We used screaming frog to check out the back end of the page and there are no meta tags like there are on most FB pages. Also we noticed there were two re-directs; one from the http page to the https page, and the other directed the https page to the http page creating one giant cycle. We think this has something to do with the problem but not sure. Is there anyone who has had a similar issue, and how did you fix it? We'd love to be assured that the search engines are tracking our interactions on Facebook for SEO purposes.

[DarinPirkey]

I haven't come across your particular situation before but I looked at your FB page and noticed the name of it is "DISH TV".  I know that Facebook's open graph search is very particular to Page Names and not FB URLs.  If you search for DISH TV your page does show up in FB search however.  If you change your FB page name to Dish Costs Less I would assume you would get the results you are looking for.  You have over 1k followers so you'll have to verify your business with them first.

On a side note.  I've personally seen strong correlation between ranking a FB page in Google with having the keyword as the page name.  Not saying that is correct but the pages that I manage that I do that with, have been successful.  This search https://www.google.com/search?q=ac+repair+miramar+fl&pws=0 and this search https://www.google.com/search?q=ac+repair+parkland&pws=0 are both on the first page of Google.  The first page has an exact fb.com/url and the second one doesn't match the title name.  They both rank though. FYI

Hope this helps.

Darin.

[Dubs]

Hey Kevin,

I can confirm that the page does pull up in the Facebook directory but when doing a URL search in Google, the page still does not pull up!  There are no Country nor Age Restrictions on the page.

It appears that DishCostsLess is not the 'name' on neither the Facebook nor your Google +.  Perhaps changing the name to "DISH TV by DishCostsLess" would help.