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Fetch as Google: How to Ask Google to Reindex Your Website

Here are instances on why you need to ask Google to recrawl your website:

1. If you created a new webpage or updated an existing page on your website, the Fetch as Google tool can reindex it. This request indexing feature is a convenient method for easily requesting indexing few URLs.

2. If you have a large number of URLs to submit, it is recommended to submit a sitemap. Or resubmit a sitemap file perhaps.

These are the criteria for a successful request indexing using Fetch as Google only for a fetch:

1. The fetch must have a complete, partial, or redirected fetch status.
2. The fetch cannot be more than 4 hours old.

Here are the steps on how to do it:


1. Login to Google Search Console.

2. Go to "Crawl" then "Fetch as Google"

3. Input the specific URL that you want to request for indexing excluding the domain link.

4. Select if you want to reindex for "Desktop" or "Mobile: Smartphone"

5. Click "Fetch" or "Fetch and Render"

Fetch is a quick operation that you use to check and debug suspected network connectivity or security issues on the website; Fetches a specified URL in your site and displays the HTTP response.

Fetch and Render fetches the specified URL in your website, displays the HTTP response and renders the page according to a specified platform.

6. Choose "Crawl only this URL"


Crawl only this URL submits only the selected URL for re-crawling. You can submit up to 10 individual URLs per day.

Crawl this URL and its direct links submits the URL as well as all the other pages that URL links directly for re-crawling. You can submit up to 2 of these site recrawls requests per day.

7. Click "Request Indexing" in the fetch history table. If you cannot see this button, this means that the fetch didn't pass on the request indexing criteria.


Note:
Recrawling will take several days for a successful request to be granted. Also, Google can't guarantee that they will index all your changes, as Google relies on an algorithm to update indexed materials.

Submit a URL to Google:

Google adds new sites to our index, and updates existing ones, every time we crawl the web. If you have a new URL, tell us about it here. We don't add all submitted URLs to our index, and we can't make predictions or guarantees about when or if submitted URLs will appear in our index.

Visit: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url

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