SEO-related changes you make on your website are not immediately reflected in search engines. Google, for example, normally takes from a few days to a few weeks to crawl and update this information in the search results.
Google Search Console is a free-to-use tool developed by Google that will help you speed up the process! To manually request Google to index your website pages, follow the steps below.
1. Open your Google Search Console account. Insert your domain and click on Continue:
2. Verify your domain ownership by adding the given TXT record to your domain's DNS zone.
This can be achieved by going to your Domains tab and clicking on "Manage" button for the desired domain. Then, you will click on "DNS / NameServers" on the left toolbar
Finally you will have the ability to add the respective TXT record that was provided by Google Search Console (make sure to select the TXT record, not HTML file):
Make sure to select the TXT record method on Google Search Console, not HTML file method 🚀
3. Give the new TXT record 10–15 minutes to spread across all servers worldwide. After 10–15 minutes, go back to Google Search Console and click on Verify. You will see the following message once your domain is verified:
4. Once your website is verified at Google Search Console, click on URL inspection on the left. Enter the URL of the page you'd like to index and click on Request indexing:
Repeat this step for the rest of the URLs you want Google to index.
The URL should contain WWW only if the WWW prefix is enabled in your website's general settings 💡