What time to expect until onpage change is reflected in google ranking?

[lcourse]

Most pages on our site are crawled by google about once per week.

We plan to implement a new navigation structure with much more interlinks among our pages. I would like to test it first just for a few pages to measure impact. How long may it take approximately until an onpage change related to link structure is reflected in google rankings?

Any experience?

[KevinBudzynski]

It varies greatly. If your site is crawled once a week, expect changes most likely after. Any new pages make take longer (make sure you submit any new pages to be included in your sitemap).

[firstconversion]

You can also ping Google in webmaster tools. Once it is live, send a few urls via Health >Fetch as Google

[lcourse]

Stephen, Kevin, thanks a lot for your comments.

So basically change in ranking should be happening mostly immediately after google crawl without any further delay?

[firstconversion]

No, pinging Google will just give them an idea that your pages have changed. That is completely different to changing ranking. I would monitor for shifts over the next month