Ask Google to recrawl your URLs
If you’ve recently added or made changes to a page on your site, you can request that Google re-index your page using any of the two method
1. Use the URL Inspection tool (just a few URLs)
2. Submit a sitemap (many URLs at once)
Note: Requesting a crawl does not guarantee that inclusion in search results will happen instantly or even at all. Google search systems prioritize the fast inclusion of high quality, useful content.
Google search console Indexing Page still showing old info/errors
This is true. The page indexing for all known pages contain a lot of old info (you will even be sent new emails occasionally noticing you about these errors). For accurate and new results, go to Sitemaps and see the specific pages indexing for the latest sitemap. You can see that a lot of the old errors are actually resolved provided that if you fixed the pages. However, this may not reflect on the foremost Indexing Page likely due to Google’s indexing and caching process, which can take time to update. You do not have to worry and this shouldn’t have a lasting impact on your SEO as long as your new updated site is correctly configured and fixed.
Why is Google reporting very old URLs as 404s?
For pages that have been discontinued and no longer in used, well, if you’ve just let those pages 404 instead of redirecting them to a new location, Google will continue to report those pages as crawl errors. They don’t know what you intended to do. Was it was a migration, someone messed up the code, or you just didn’t notice the missing pages? They don’t know that. That the URLs are now reported as 404s is probably accurate. Next time, or even now, you can redirect those pages with a 301 (Permanent Redirect) to whatever the new location is or return HTTP Status Code 410 (Gone) if there is really no place to send those users. Is Google catching up? Sure, in some sense. Google will eventually crawl those pages less often and they’re unlikely to be indexed at this point. But, if anything, it’s indicating that you need to catch up. Should I ignore these/mark as fixed? That’s entirely up to you and what you consider “fixed” or worthy of your attention. Having 404s doesn’t necessarily hurt your site. There could be many reasons ranging from invalid URLs in a backlink, “seasonal” pages, or campaign specific pages which were not intended but accidentally indexed. You have to assess the value of these 404 pages, whether (and how often) users will actually land on them, and if a fix is feasible.
Google search console Not found (404) error failed and no option to restart or validate fix?
Request URL Removals. Requests made in the Removals tool last for about 6 months. To permanently block a page from Google Search results, remove or update the content on your page and wait for good results.
Google Search Console says “Redirect error”, I see no issues and cannot fix?
Make sure you have checked everything and the redirects are working and definitely set up correctly, ensure you have a sitemap that contains all involved source and target URLs, add it to Search Console and don’t request manual indexing for a while. Added the sitemaps to Google and refrained from hitting the “Request indexing” button ever since. Google will eventually process the links from the sitemap and may realise the redirects are fine. Redirect errors will go down by one or two every few days and finally it looks it’ll eventually solve.
Is there a way I can reset my Google search console data?
There is no way to reset the Search Console Data. There is no “one-click remove all links” method for Google Search Console. You can’t reset Google Search Console. The console is only ‘monitoring’ what Googlebot, the search Index, and search results are doing with the site. However you can reset Index page to delete the search index and reset the crawl queues and wait for good results.
At the end, it is all about site authority. It’s a big internet. Your site needs to earn the crawl – you can’t force it.
Additional Info:
For a normal ordinary person who don’t like your personal info leaked on the internet, you can remove personally identifiable info or doxxing content from Google Search – Start removal request
