: How to let Google know that content on the page has just changed? I'd never thought of such a problem in the whole SEO spectrum before I considered launching my own website. Imagine that

@Lee4591628

If you have an XML sitemap, you can specify a lastmod tag like below and it gives a hint to the search engine crawler when the page has last been updated:

<url>

<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>

<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>

<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

<priority>0.8</priority>

</url>


Even though your page may have just been crawled, the search engine may take notice of your sitemap last modified tag and crawl the page again.

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@Shelton105

First of all you will need to prepare a sitemap. Sitemap is nothing just a map of your site which will list each page of your website. It tells search engines that about your new pages.
Then you have to tell submit these sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

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@Tiffany637

There's a few things you can do:


On Webmaster Tools, Go to "Health" / "Fetch as Google" where you can enter the address of the page that has changed, click on "Fetch" then click on "Submit to index". At which point a message will pop up and say: "Select if your page is new or has been recently updated. Google doesn't guarantee to index all submitted URLs." Choose your option, and hit OK.
Resubmit sitemap.
Adjust crawl frequency.


I always go to step 1 when I change something on a page.

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@Murphy175

In this case you can use various ping options available just to let Google know about your particular page being updated on your site.

Use any of the following site ping to Google server.
www.pingler.com/
pingomatic.com/ googleping.com/

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@Vandalay111

You can use Google's Webmaster tools to adjust the frequency with which Google crawls your site.

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