Changing of title page and description

[Grumpy_Carl]

Can I ask how long after changing the Title and Description tags on a website do people have to wait to see these changes reflected in Google? I changed a site of mine a couple of weeks back, pinged the site to google and had well over 5,000 googlebots to the page (not a result of pinging, I get that anyway), yet Google continues to display the old listing.

Any secret techniques to speeding this up?

Thanks

[theshortstack]

Afraid not (or at least not that I know of) - it's just a question of being patient I'm afraid. There's no way of getting Google to respond any quicker than it does.

[rasmusbang]

You could consider adding the page to the sitemap?

I have some pages in my sitemap which are set to be updated monthly, and still only days after the change of title/description Google has updated this. I must add, though, that a lot of pages in my site links to these pages.

Does your site have a sitemap?

If not, perhaps this blog could help you out:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xml-sitemaps-guidelines-on-their-use

Best regards,

Rasmus

[kchandler]

First check to see if the site has been reindexed in Google's cache (this link can be found in the site preview box in the SERPs, it actually gives you the last crawl date). This will tell you if your updates have been reviewed by Google. If they still haven't, then its a waiting game. Rasmus does bring up a valid point with resubmitting an XML sitemap, i have seen that speed up the process as well.

Good Luck - Kyle

[Grumpy_Carl]

Yes, it's the homepage of the site so in the sitemap. I will try resubmitting the sitemap manually and seeing if that helps.

Thanks, Carl

[rasmusbang]

Please, do so. And post back here to let us know if it helps. Always great to see if suggestions and answers pay off