You can now Force Google to Recrawl Your Site

There are plenty of reasons why you'd want Googlebot to recrawl your website ahead of schedule. Maybe you've cleaned up a malware attack that damaged your organic visibility and want a clean bill of health so rankings recover faster; or maybe you've implemented site-wide canonical tags to eliminate duplicate content and want these updates sorted out quickly; or you want to accelerate indexing for that brand new resources section on your site.


To force recrawls, SEOs typically use tactics like resubmitting XML sitemaps, or using a free ping service like Seesmic Ping (formerly Ping.fm) or Ping-O-Matic to try and coax a crawl, or firing a bunch of social bookmarking links at the site. Trouble is, these tactics are pretty much hit or miss.

Good news is, there's a better, more reliable way to get Googlebot to recrawl your site ahead of your standard crawl rate, and it's 100 percent Google-endorsed.

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Nice. I did the sitemap thing with the vBulletin move and seem to be doing okay referrer-wise from Google. I don't remember my numbers from pre-XF but I'm sure Google will fully catch up sooner or later.