Using Google Console to Update Search Results
When you make changes to your site (changing favicon, deleting/updating articles, updating Staff Profile images, etc.), these updates will not immediately be reflected in search results until Google has re-crawled your site. Google automatically re-crawls and re-indexes your site every couple of weeks, depending on the amount of traffic to your site. Therefore, if you change something on your site, Google will automatically re-index your site within a few weeks to show those changes in search results.
If this is not happening correctly for you or you would like to make it happen sooner, you can ask Google to re-crawl and re-index your site in Google Search Console.
You can also use Google Search Console to ask Google to remove specific content from their search results.
- Sign up for Google Search Console here: https://search.google.com/search-console/about
- It will prompt you to verify domain ownership. Choose the “Verify domain ownership via DNS Records” method. Pick the option for Any DNS provider, then choose TXT for the record type.
- Google will provide a TXT record to add to your site's DNS records for verification. Copy the TXT record and send it to SNO via support ticket. We will add it to your domain’s DNS records, so you are able to verify ownership.
- Once verified, you can follow these directions to request Google to have your site re-indexed or request that they remove content from search results: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6349986?hl=en