How Do You Get Google To Recrawl Your Website

Google generally comes up to recrawl sites and find updates by default but this process can be lengthy. Anyway, there are some ways for speeding up this process significantly and providing Google with the correct signals for recrawling content that has been updated recently.

Process of Google recrawling

How to ask Google to recrawl URLs of your WordPress site?

In the index of every website, Google has a dedicated crawling schedule that helps to determine the kind of URLs that need a recheck and the number of times to do so. Few examples of essential variables that can influence the schedule are:

1. Authority of the website
2. The count of pages
3. The platform quality on which your website is hosted
4. The website content’s freshness and originality.

Note: Any website that gets updated only a few times every month is recrawled very slowly compared to the ones that receive updates on a daily basis.

If you want to speed up the whole process of recrawling, you need to follow the following steps:

1. You need to request URL indexing via Google Console Search
2. Next, add any sitemap to the Google Console Search
3. Now, you need to add any internal links that have a relevance
4. Lastly, get backlinks to the updated content of your website.

How to request indexing via Google Console Search?

If you want to signal Google about the update of any new content on your website, then submitting individual URLs can be the fastest way possible. With the help of Google Console Search’s inspection tool of URL, you can keep a check on the time when Google crawled last the individual URLs, and as well as you can submit URLs to Google’s crawling queue.

How can you submit any URL for recrawling in the Google Console Search inspection tool?

1. Firstly, you need to log in to Google Console Search
2. Secondly, select a property
3. Thirdly, submit the URL from your website to get recrawled
4. Fourthly, select the indexing request button
5. Lastly, keep check the inspection tool monitor for the URL on the indexing and crawling table to observe the time of Google’s latest recrawl on your website.

How to add a sitemap to Google Console Search?

A great method of automatically informing Google regarding your content changes on the website is through XML Sitemap. It consists of URLs on the website that you need Google to index or crawl. The details about every URL will also include a timestamp that will indicate the latest time when the URL got updated.

Google will receive a signal that the updated URL is needed to be recrawled. You should submit the sitemap to the Google Console Search.

Submitting a sitemap to Google Console Search

1. You need to log in to Google Console Search
2. Next, you need to select a property so that you can submit the XML sitemap
3. Select the button of sitemaps present in the right column of the menu
4. Now, enter the URL of the sitemap
5. Lastly, check on the status of the updated sitemap.

Endnote

You can also add internal relevant links to the rest of the pages on your website. Also, you can obtain high-quality backlinks for your updated content. These backlinks are generally treated as votes for the content on your site. In