Many friends have been asking me, why
their blog post are not index fast by Google. This is because, when we
post new content on our blog or any site, we need to wait for several
hours or sometimes it may take some days to appear in Google Search Results especially when our website is new.
So, today I am gonna show you How to use Fetch as Google in Google Webmaster Tools to Submit and get Indexed by Google. Yes, it’s less than the 1-minute task.
What is Fetch as Google?
“
Fetch as Google” Tool, sometimes referred to as “
Fetch as Googlebot”
is an option available for bloggers/webmasters to check how a webpage
is looking in Google Search when Google bot crawls that page. Fetch as
Google Tool can be specially used for the following purposes:
- To submit new web page (or new blog post) to appear in Google Search.
- To Find out the pages due to any issues when a site is hacked by malwares.
- To submit updated page for indexing whenever the content is updated/changed significantly.
Steps to Use Fetch as Google Tool to Index Blog Post:
- Visit and Sign into your Google Webmaster Tools using Google Account. Add and verify your website/blog by any method (Ignore if already added and verified successfully)
- Choose your website or blog you want to submit.
- In Site Dashboard from left side navigation, click to expand Crawl and then make a click on “Fetch as Google“
- Now you will see a text field that begins with your domain name. Enter your web page URL or blog post URL which you want Google to index (Leave the box blank for Fetching Homepage),
- Choose the Googlebot type Web and click on Fetch button.
After Fetching the URL, only two possible status will be shown, Success or Failed. If the Fetching is successful, just click on Submit to index button as shown in picture below.
Now you will see a pop up to choose either “Crawl only this URL” (having limit of 500 URLs/month) or “Crawl this URL and its direct links“(having limit 10/month). Just select Crawl only this URL and click on Go button.
That’s it, your URL has been submitted to the index. Now relax and after
a few seconds search on Google for the submitted URL , Just like below
picture, you will see that your new post has been successfully indexed and appeared.
