If you’ve recently added or made changes to a page on your site, you can request that Google
re-index your page using any of the methods listed here. You can’t request indexing for URLs
that you don’t manage.
Crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Be patient and monitor progress
using either the
Index Status report
or the
URL Inspection tool.
Use the URL Inspection tool (just a few URLs)
To request a crawl of individual URLs, use the
URL Inspection tool.
You must be an
owner or full user of the Search Console property
to be able to request indexing in the URL Inspection tool.
Keep in mind that there’s a quota for submitting individual URLs and requesting a recrawl
multiple times for the same URL won’t get it crawled any faster.
Submit a sitemap (many URLs at once)
If you have large numbers of URLs, submit a sitemap. A sitemap is an important way for Google
to discover URLs on your site. It can be very helpful if you just launched your site or
recently performed a
site move. A sitemap
can also include additional metadata about alternate language versions, video, image, or
news-specific pages.
Learn how to create and submit a sitemap.
How we apply this
Requesting recrawl is useful for a handful of URLs and useless at scale. For large changes we rely on sitemaps and internal linking, and we set client expectations that indexing is a queue, not a button.
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