Search Console - Best practice to fetch pages when you update them?

[wozniak65]

Hi guys,

If you make changes to a page e.g. add more content or something is it good practice to get google to fetch that page again in search console?

My assumption is this way, Google can review the updated page quicker, resulting in faster changes in the SERPs for that page.

Thoughts?

Cheers.

[Justen_H]

Yup, if you fetch it, it's more likely to appear fresh in the index. If you don't fetch it, you'll have to wait for Google to crawl your site again. This does not mean that your site is instantly indexed as soon as you fetch it; you just send a signal to Google that you want it crawled again and you'll see a status next to the page.