How to make Google automatically reindex your entire site: advanced recommendations

Google recently published a video on how to get the search engine to automatically reindex your entire site. The question was asked in the context of major website changes that require a complete site overhaul to update the Google index promptly. Google specialist John Mueller answered this question.

"Is there a mechanism to request that the entire website be re-indexed at once? Unfortunately, no. There is no way to cause the entire website to be re-crawled and processed at once. When you make significant changes to a website, search engines usually automatically update them over time. You don't need to do anything extra."

🚀 The main recommendations that have been made include using 301 and 404 server response codes to notify search engines that web pages have been moved or removed. Google generally places a high priority on crawling important website pages, such as the home page, which means that linking to key pages from important pages is a good strategy. Important changes such as new phone numbers (and probably mailing addresses) should ideally be noted on the most important pages of the website.

• 📌 Use 301 response codes to notify search engines that a web page has moved so that new pages are discovered.
• 📌 Use 404 server response codes to tell search engines that the page no longer exists.
• 📌 Google usually places a high priority on crawling important website pages, such as the home page, which means that linking to key pages from important pages is a good strategy.
• 📌 Important changes such as new phone numbers (and probably mailing addresses) should ideally be noted on the most important pages of the website.