Hi All When you find my site on a google search page it is indexed with the old homepage url extension and an outdates site description. I had a temporary homepage up while the actual site got developed, and that's the site heading, description, URL that google has indexed. The new redeveloped site went up a few days ago and the homepage URL is slightly different, and the headings, etc have changed. How long does it take for google to reindex the site normally?
That's good to hear. I was hoping it would only take a week/fortnight sort of thing... My concern was it could take months for them to do it.
Like everyone said. If they are deleted or changed on your server they will be updated eventually. Backlinks for a fast change, 301s if you need them.
If there is a change in url but the text content is same then consider using 301 redirect from old homepage to newly developed site...that way you will also maintain the link juice of old site if any.
I'm having the same problem. It has been one week since I modified a paragraph on my site's main page and Google still shows old paragraph. what's worse is that I did a ping on day 2 and within 2 hours, Google updated with the new paragraph but it only lasted 12 hours. Google showed back the old paragraph after 12 hours. On day 5, I again pinged and within 2 hours, Google updated with the new paragraph and within 12 hours, it's back to the old paragraph. I'm at wits end. Maybe you can try pinging your site and see whether you experience the same thing. You can try ping service like pingomatic and pingdevice.
Click on the actual page cache. You may find the new article there with the old description. It will take about a two weeks for the new stuff to kick in ... depending on what part of its crawl cycle big G was in when you made the change. End of the month seems to be better than the middle.
It should atleast take one to weeks, as my site also had come up with the new content within 10 days in google, after I changed the description of the homepage.