: Although using that index meta tag doesn't hurt, it's generally better to not use it at all since the search engines' default stance is "follow and index everything". Anyway, once the page

@Cofer257

Although using that index meta tag doesn't hurt, it's generally better to not use it at all since the search engines' default stance is "follow and index everything".

Anyway, once the page is available to index it can take anywhere from a few days to a few months, depending on how many new pages need to be indexed at once and how popular your site is. If the site has low traffic* then you will probably not get indexed too quickly.

As others said, create an XML sitemap and add the new pages to it when they are ready to be indexed.

I would also re-evaluate whether having the non-translated pages on your site is actually good for users. As an English speaker, it would look bad to me to see a site mostly in English but then have random pages in a language I don't speak. (One idea: auto-translate those pages into your chosen language and let Google index them. Then it has an idea of the content and you can go back and improve the translation later.)

* Note, Google doesn't know your actual traffic stats, I mean whether from their point of view if the site appears in many search results.

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