A New Way To Submit URLs to Google

August 5, 2011 by 8 Comments

Google has announced one more way to help site owners request that a specific web page is crawled. The Fetch as Googlebot feature in Webmaster Tools has been around for a while but now makes it possible for site owners to submit a new or updated URL for indexing. The process is simple and doesn’t require users to start at the beginning of the crawling process. After you fetch a URL, and if the fetch is successful, you will now see the option to submit the URL to the Google index.

A URL will typically be indexed within a day, but this doesn’t mean that every URL submitted will be indexed. Once a page has been crawled Google will evaluate whether or not a URL belongs in their index. As with any type of discovery, ie: XML sitemap, internal and external links, RSS feeds, etc; Google goes through another process to determine whether to keep the page in their index.

This is a great function to use if you’ve just launched a new site, added new pages to a site, or updated important or time sensitive content on an existing page. You will no longer have to wait for Google to discover the page naturally. Keep in mind you will be limited to 50 single URL submissions per week. And submissions are limited to 10 per month when submitting a URL along with the links on that page going to other pages.

In addition to this update, Google has also updated the public “Add your URL to Google” form. It is now called the “Crawl URL form” and doesn’t require owner verification, but does still limit you to submitting 50 URLs per week.

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8 Comments

  1. David pylyp says:
    August 5, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    Fabulous! Whole new direction to make sure individual pages are indexed.

    Thank you!

    David Pylyp
    Accredited senior agent for homes in west toronto

    Reply
  2. 福州婚纱摄影 says:
    August 5, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    thank you this tip is important to me

    Reply
  3. Billig Seo says:
    August 7, 2011 at 10:46 am

    Well, finally they implemented this future. I was disappointed to not have this. I think this is very good tool to index fast the pages we need f. e. back link pages. Thanks for this tip Robyn.

    Reply
  4. Kasey says:
    August 8, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    Thanks for the clear instructions. This is really helpful. It will be interesting to see how Google+ changes things in SEO.

    Reply
  5. SEO Mexico says:
    August 10, 2011 at 3:56 am

    Thanks a lot for those tips!

    Reply
  6. khoya says:
    August 18, 2011 at 7:51 am

    good I like that

    Reply
  7. Lynda Mama says:
    April 12, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    Thanks a lot for those tricks

    Reply
  8. majid says:
    May 26, 2012 at 12:42 am

    tanks for post
     
    i love SEO.com

    Reply

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