By Stacy Karacostas
Expert Author
Article Date: 2011-08-10
Entrepreneurs…Got an important Webpage that Google hasn't picked up yet? Wanna make sure critical new or updated pages on your site are indexed quickly and properly by Google?
Last week Google launched a new way for site owners to request specific web pages be crawled…The Crawl URL form.While Google has always had an "Add URL" form for requesting a URL be added to the search index, it was meant more for searchers who noticed a Webpage was missing.
This form has now been renamed Crawl URL and is aimed at business owners and Webmasters. You have to log in to it with a Google Account (they're free, so no worries there). However, you can submit only up to 50 URLs a week.
Before you get all excited, this is actually not meant to be used on a regular basis…It's more for major updates or important new content. But this can be a key marketing tool if you're in the process of launching something new online.
You can and should use the "Submit URL" form and other Google forms found here http://tinyurl.com/c32rbu for general Website submissions.
Learn more about all of this in a far more detailed article from Search Engine Land: Fetch, Googlebot! Google's New Way To Submit URLs & Updated Pages here: http://tinyurl.com/3wvsf44
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