I was helping a friend with a site and it’s been like 3 week we make the site live but however google still indexed the old status which is with URL of /password, we have already published and live the site for like 2 weeks and also we changed the meta tags as well, but on google, they are still indexing the old meta tags and also with “OPENING SOON” default text, I had tried to submit sitemaps multiple times as well and also manually submit links on Google search console and nothing seems to help, anyone got similar issue like this ?
Google indexes your site automatically within 48 to 72 hours after you add
or update information. You can’t force Google to re-index your site, but
you can prompt them to do so by using Google Search Console. Google doesn’t
index all of the pages on a site.
Generally, it takes 4 to 6 days but it also depends on the number of pages in the website.
Google can index your website as soon as Google crawlers can find your website. Make sure you have webmaster account with sitemap submitted and your website has been linked with multiple other websites so that crawlers have multiple routes to find your new website. This whole process of indexation can take about an hour to several weeks depending upon how you make crawlers journey to find your website easy.
Thank you and that was what happened, we submitted the shopify site and it’s been 2 weeks, however, all pages did not index, it’s a completely new site and there aren’t many pages, less than 10 in total and that is why I don’t understand why it has not been indexed yet !
As @chintanjoshi has mentioned, you can prompt Google to re-index your site through Google Search Console. Also, if you feel a particular page has to be indexed/reindexed, that also can be done through Google Search Console.
The thing is I had tried that before, reindex it, and even update the site map and do manual submission nothing works, the site that they are crawling are still the link with /password, which is the unlived version but we have opened that site for like 3 weekls from now, the meta tag that they indexed is still the default one - Opening soon, that is why I ask this question here, I do know we can re-submit and manually submit but as I said, nothing works and it’s been almost 4 weeks!