Indexing and technical SEO
How to request indexing in Google Search Console and how long it takes
Request indexing asks Google to crawl one URL. It is for a few important pages, it has a daily limit, and it never guarantees that the page will appear in the index.
Checked against Google Search Console Help and Search Central · October 2026
Short answer
Inspect the URL in Search Console and click Request indexing. If the page passes a quick check it goes into the crawl queue. Google says indexing typically takes a day or so but can take much longer, and crawling can take from a few days to a few weeks. For many pages, submit a sitemap instead.
The steps are on Google’s URL Inspection tool help page ↗ .
The steps, in order
Each step follows Google’s documentation.
Inspect the URL
Paste the full URL of a page in your property into the inspection box. You must be an owner or full user of the property, and you cannot request indexing for URLs you do not manage.
Check that it can be indexed
Run the live test. You cannot request indexing if the page is considered non-indexable in the live test, so fix a noindex tag or a blocked page first.
Click Request indexing
If the page passes a quick check for immediate indexing errors, it is submitted to the indexing queue.
Ask once
Asking again for the same URL does not make it faster, and there is a daily limit on requests.
Use a sitemap for many pages
To get many new or updated pages indexed, submit a sitemap and mark the updated pages with lastmod.
Track progress
Check the URL again with the URL Inspection tool or the Page indexing report; do not expect an instant result.
If the button does not work or nothing happens
Check that you are an owner or full user of the property, that the live test shows the page as indexable and that you have not reached the daily limit; try again later.
There is a daily limit on index requests. Google’s help pages do not give the number for this tool, so prioritise your most important pages and use a sitemap for the rest.
A request does not guarantee inclusion. Check the Manual Actions and Security Issues reports, whether the page was temporarily blocked, and the Availability section of the inspection result.
Google’s inspection help says a day or so typically, up to a week or two in some cases; its recrawl guide says a few days to a few weeks. Monitor instead of requesting repeatedly.
You cannot request indexing for URLs you do not manage.
INDEXING
A request asks; it does not decide
Requesting a crawl does not guarantee that inclusion in search results will happen instantly or even at all. Google says its systems prioritise the fast inclusion of high quality, useful content, so a page that is thin, duplicated or blocked may stay out however often you ask.
Requesting indexing and SEOKit
The workspace inspects many URLs at once and tracks their index status over time, but the button itself belongs to Search Console. The URL Inspection API method is documented for viewing the index status of a URL, so the request is made in Search Console. IndexNow, which the workspace supports, notifies other search engines, not Google.
Common mistakes
Do not submit the same URL again and again
It does not speed anything up and it spends your daily limit.
Do not request pages that are blocked or noindexed
The live test will refuse them; fix the cause first.
Do not use the button for a whole site
Submit a sitemap for many pages and keep the button for a few important ones.