SEO Guide: How to request Google to re-crawl your URLs

While Google will ultimately recrawl webpages and automatically detect any modifications, the process can take a long time. There are a few things you can do to speed up the process and provide Google the information it needs to recrawl freshly updated material.

Let us understand the Google’s recrawling procedure in a nutshell. Google has a crawling schedule for each page in its index that decides which URLs to visit, verify and how frequently. The following are some examples of key variables that shall impact the re-crawling. The platform’s performance, the authority of the website, the amount of pages, and the freshness of its content are all factors in its hosting.

You can use any of the techniques mentioned below to request Google to revisit a page on your site. Do you use a hosted content management system (like Blogger or WordPress)? In most situations, the platform will automatically submit your fresh material to search engines. Consult the documentation for your platform.

Guidelines for general use

• It might take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to crawl. Be patient and use the Index Status report or the URL Inspection tool to track progress.
• All of the approaches discussed here take roughly the same amount of time to respond.
• Individual URL submissions are subject to a limit.
• Requesting a recrawl for the same URL or sitemap several times will not result in a quicker crawl.

Note: You must be an owner or full user of the Search Console property to be able to request indexing in the URL Inspection tool.

Request a crawl of particular URLs using the URL Inspection tool. If you have a lot of URLs, you should provide a sitemap instead.

Steps to add a URL to the index:

• Observe the general rules.
• Using the URL Inspection tool, examine the URL.
• Request indexing should be selected. The tool will do a live test on the URL to determine if there are any obvious indexing difficulties, and if there are none, the page will be queued for indexing. If the programme identifies any problems with the page, try to resolve them.

Requesting a crawl does not guarantee that inclusion in search results will happen instantly or even at all. Our systems prioritize the fast inclusion of high quality, useful content.

Provide a sitemap (many URLs at once)
A sitemap is a useful tool for Google to find URLs on your website. Additional metadata regarding different language versions, video, picture, or news-specific pages can be included in a sitemap.

Decide wisely on when to submit an indexing request for the same page. It is always advised not to submit the index request for thes same page more than once; it won’t make a difference.

Google is excellent at identifying new pages or updates to old pages, but you may speed up the process by employing one of the strategies listed above. The time it takes Google to re-crawl your website is determined on the changes you make. If you carefully use the above strategies for the search engine to revisit you might also receive an updated version of your page in Google’s index in less than 30 minutes.