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Hi all

Please help me to solve this

I recently changed the url of my page to seo friendly url. How many days it will take to index by google? And what is the quick way to fetch?

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Short answer: there’s no guaranteed “X days” for Google to index a changed URL — it can be as fast as a few hours for frequently-crawled sites or take several days to a few weeks for many sites. Submitting an updated XML sitemap and using Search Console’s URL Inspection (Request Indexing) are the official ways to speed discovery, but none force immediate inclusion. (developers.google.com)

Practical checklist (most reliable → broad sweep):

  1. Confirm the old URL returns a server-side permanent redirect (HTTP 301) to the new SEO URL, avoid redirect chains, and keep redirects up while the move stabilizes.
  2. Update internal links and rel=canonical values so the new URL is the canonical copy.
  3. Regenerate and submit the sitemap(s) in Search Console (submit the sitemap index if there are many pages).
  4. For important pages, run the URL through Search Console’s URL Inspection → Test Live URL → Request Indexing (subject to quotas; this queues the URL for recrawl).
  5. Verify the page isn’t blocked by robots.txt or a meta noindex, and check server response codes and rendering (Google renders JS).
    These steps preserve link signals and give Google the clean signals it needs to reprocess the URL. (developers.google.com)

Notes tied to thread replies: was right to flag redirects — that’s the single most critical technical step; the old “Fetch as Google” workflow has been superseded by URL Inspection in the new Search Console. is also correct that there’s no strict timetable. ’s idea of social shares can aid discovery (links/traffic can help crawlers find a page) but won’t guarantee indexing; if Search Console shows “Discovered — currently not indexed” this can persist until Google prioritizes the crawl, which sometimes takes a long time. For persistent problems, check Search Console’s Coverage and the URL Inspection live test, review server logs for Googlebot activity, and improve the page’s uniqueness and usefulness before re-requesting indexing. (developers.google.com)

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Member Avatar for rtrethewey

First, make sure that your server responds to requests for the old, original URL with a 301 redirect to the new SEO-friendly URL. Then go into Webmaster Tools and use the Fetch as Googlebot tool to fetch the old URL. Once Googlebot has fetched the URL, select "Submit to Index".

Member Avatar for Piers Rollins

Actually, there is no particular time period available for search engine bots to crawl, cache/index your website. In order to make quick cache, do search engine submission.

Member Avatar for JillADDison

It is hard to say. But it will be indexed within 10-60 days. When you have changed your url then you should share that link to the social media sites and also social bookmarking sites to get it indexed quickly.

Member Avatar for cpsi

May be 5-10 busienees day.

Member Avatar for advent_geek

how can yu tell it take 5-10 days???? lol

for faster cache use G+, just post your url on G+ it will catche your website soon.

Member Avatar for cwvps

It may take a while, but 30 days, not longer. Make sure to do some good quality off page seo in the meantime.

Member Avatar for DistantGalaxy

May be 5-10 busienees day.

I like the idea that search engines get time off work :-)

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Member Avatar for larryholley

Generally, a website will be crawled by the google search engine bot based on the no. of visitors for that website and the specific timeperiod for those webistes will be based on the traffic level of each website.

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