It’s frustrating having to wait up to several weeks for Googlebot (Google’s crawler) to notice new content added to your site. Well, Google have heard the complaints of webmasters and introduced a new tool called ‘Fetch as Googlebot” in Webmaster Tools.
Now you can directly request that Googlebot index your new and updated URL. The best part is, if it is approved for inclusion in their search engine index, this only takes up to 24 hours for your site to be crawled and indexed. But remember, this doesn’t guarantee that every URL can be indexed using this tool. They’ll still be evaluating whether a URL belongs in their search engine.
The benefits are clear. This allows visitors to view the updated cached version of your site with the new changes (Note: A Cached version of your page is just how the page looks when the search engine last indexed your page to its database. People may view this page if you actual site is temporarily down). You wouldn’t want out-of-date content could appear in search results right, particularly if you need to update event and product details or if you’ve published the wrong information.
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