Fetch as Google Bot Adds "Submit URL" Feature
Fetch as Google Bot is the webmaster tool designed to help you troubleshoot potential issues with your site by showing you what the Googlebot returns when it crawls your site. It's also been recently updated to allow you to Submit a URL to Google.
Most of the time, if your site is crawled regularly, there is no need to submit a new URL to Google. However, with the announcement of this new addition Google provided three examples of when this might come in handy...
- When you first launch a site and are excited to get it noticed.
- When you have date specific content you are hoping to get indexed.
- If you have cached information that is incorrect.
If you are unfamiliar with this tool then here's the main information it returns when you run your page through it.
- The HTTP response returned by your server.
- The date and time of your crawl request.
- HTML code exactly as Google sees it.
- If your site has been hacked, it can help you identify problematic pages.
- The first 100KB of visible (indexable) text on a page. If there is no content, it may indicate that your page is generated entirely from JavaScript or rich media files, not text-based content. You should review this text to make sure that it doesn't include unexpected content, which could indicate that your site has been hacked.
You will find the Fetch As Googlebot button under diagnostics. Once you enter your URL and click Fetch, another dialog box will pop up if your URL was successfully fetched allowing you to Submit to index.
You can also submit a URL without verifying ownership here. No matter what method you use to submit your URL, you are limited to 50 individual URL submissions per week and ten submissions for a URL in...
