Step-By-Step Guide on How To ‘Crawl Your Site’ and ‘Request Indexing’ with the Latest Updated Google Search Console | Google Search Console Rank
Step 1: Use ‘Inspect Any URL in…’ the search bar that you can find on the top of every page of your account – Let’s get Google Search Console Rank wrapped for you!
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Type your URL and then hit submit. Wait a few moments for Google to retrieve the information about your page. Normally it takes from a few seconds to 2 minutes to get the result.
Google Search Console Inspect Any URL Bar
Step 2: Use Search Console Request Indexing link.
Once Google retrieves information about the page you submitted, you’ll get a full report that includes:
- If the page is already indexed or not,
- Last crawl date
- Crawled version
- Sitemap coverage
- History
- Mobile version
- Any issues with the page Google might find.
If the page is not indexed or indexed as an older version, use the ‘Request Indexing’ button located on the right of the report.
Google Search Console Request Indexing Link
Step 3. Wait for Google to crawl and index/reindex your page.
After submitting the URL to crawl, it takes anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 minutes for a page to be indexed or reindexed and updated in the search results. Clear your cache or use the ‘incognito’ browser mode to view the live search results.
The search position can improve or decline significantly if the new version of your page has a lot of changes or replaced old content.
Is There Limit on How Many Pages I Can Index or Resubmit With Google New Search Console?
Yes. There are still the same limits from the old version of Google Search Console. To stop the bots and avoid abuse of the system, Google limits index requests to 10 per day.
When I tested, after 5 submissions I was getting ‘I am Not a Robot’ CAPTCHA for every request before I hit my limit of 10.
What if I Need to Index More than 10 URL’s?
Perhaps you posted a lot of content or a whole new section of the website. With a limitation of 10 pages per day, I recommend submitting only the most important and ‘root’ pages. For all the other pages, you can speed up the indexing process if they are internally linked between each other. If properly linked and no on-page issues that can prevent the crawlers to reach and index the URL’s, most of your site pages will be discovered and indexed naturally by Google within 24-48 hours.
Then, submit your sitemap making sure that all the new pages are there. Come back a day later and repeat the process by submitting 10 more URL’s. Just remember, Google Search Console website information is not live and updates every 2-3 days. Instead, search if the page is indexed directly in Google Search by adding “site:” before the URL. See the example below.
