New Search Console Recrawl Limits & Quotas Revealed


Last GoogleBot Crawlmonth Google changed its Search Console documentation page to specify changes to their recrawl limits and quotas.

Basically they switched from monthly to daily limits. Instead of 500 monthly for the 'Crawl only this URL' it's now 10 individual URLs per day.

Here's what Google's new documentation page says,

Ask Google to recrawl and reindex your URL

  1. Perform a fetch (or fetch and render) request for a URL using Fetch as Google, or choose a recent fetch on the table that satisfies the requirements above. Make sure that the page appears in the fetch as you think it should; if the page cannot be reached by the fetch tool or doesn't display fully to the fetch tool, it might be misclassified or not crawlable by Google.
  2. Click Request indexing next to the fetch in the fetch history table. If the request feature does not appear next to a fetch, the fetch didn't fulfill the requirements listed above.
  3. Select whether to crawl only that single URL, or that URL plus its direct links:
    •  Crawl only this URL submits only the selected URL to the Google for re-crawling. You can submit up to 10 individual URLs per day.
    • Select Crawl this URL and its direct links to submit the URL as well as all the other pages that URL links to directly for re-crawling. You can submit up to 2 of these site recrawl requests per day.
  4. Click Submit to queue your request.
  5. Recrawling is not immediate or guaranteed. It typically takes several days for a successful request to be granted. Also, understand that we can't guarantee that Google will index all your changes, as Google relies on a complex algorithm to update indexed materials.

When asked about the limits, Google's Jo...

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