If you are seeing outdated or missing search results on your site, Google will eventually crawl and re-index your content automatically. The problem with this is that it can take several days, weeks, or even longer before your new results will appear. However, you can speed up this process by using the features in Google Webmaster Tools.
1. Create a Google Account
If you don’t have one already, you will need to create a free Google Account before you can use the Google Webmaster Tools. Please note that you do not need to have a Gmail based email. You can use any email when creating an account.
2. Verify Your Site
Next up, you need to verify your site with Google. When selecting your verification method, use the “Alternate Method” of the “HTML Tag” and copy the entire content string between the quotation marks.
Next, login to your site and paste this code into the Google Meta ID field.
Now that you have added the Meta ID to your site and saved your changes, you can click the “Verify” button in your Google Search Console.
You should then get a message that your site has been verified. If not, be sure that you are only copying and pasting the code string between the quotation marks in the step above.
3. Submit Your XML Sitemap
Now that your site is verified, you can use the Google Search Console to submit the XML sitemap from your site. This sitemap is automatically generated and is up to date with the latest content in your site. The URL of your sitemap can be found at http://www.(yoursite).ca.gov/sitemap.xml
Switch back to your Search Console and click on your site.
Drill down in the left nav to the sitemap section, click the button to add new sitemap, and then type “sitemap.xml” into the URL field and then Submit.
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You will then see your sitemap added to the scheduler. Most likely, your status will be “Submitted” or “Processing” until the sitemap is actually crawled by Google. Please note that this process can take several days and sometimes even weeks before all of your content is completely indexed by Google. So you need to be patient 🙂
4. Wait
Please note that this process can take several days and sometimes even weeks before all of your content is completely indexed by Google. So you need to be patient 🙂