{"id":870,"date":"2022-08-12T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/08\/12\/6466565-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-request-google-to-index-website-pages\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:58:46","slug":"6466565-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-request-google-to-index-website-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6466565-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-request-google-to-index-website-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Request Google to Index Website Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">SEO-related changes you make on your website are not immediately reflected in search engines. <b>Google<\/b>, for example, normally takes from a<b> few days<\/b> to a<b> few weeks<\/b> to crawl and update this information in the search results.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/about\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Search Console<\/a><\/b> is a free-to-use tool developed by Google that will help you speed up the process! To manually request Google to index your website pages, follow the steps below. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">1. Open your Google Search Console account. Insert your domain and click on <b>Continue<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/29bc1924-c6dc-4b11-bbf0-2aeef3c01788.jpg\" alt=\"Adding a domain to Google Search Console\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">2. Verify your domain ownership by <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583664-how-to-manage-txt-records-in-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">adding the given TXT record<\/a> <\/b>to your domain&rsquo;s DNS zone. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">This can be achieved by going to your <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/domains\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Domains tab<\/a><\/b> and <b>clicking on &ldquo;Manage&rdquo; button<\/b> for the desired domain. Then, you will <b>click on &ldquo;DNS \/ NameServers&rdquo;<\/b> on the left toolbar<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Finally you will have the ability to add the respective TXT record that was provided by Google Search Console (make sure to select the TXT record, not HTML file):<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/81379c4c-cc2a-4953-ab31-15dca873c20c.jpg\" width=\"500\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Make sure to select the TXT record method on Google Search Console, not HTML file method &#128640; <\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/e4cf8429-0ad0-4d40-922d-2894a8e0adbe.jpg\" width=\"580\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">3. Give the new TXT record 10&ndash;15 minutes to spread across all servers worldwide. After 10&ndash;15 minutes, go back to Google Search Console and click on <b>Verify<\/b>. You will see the following message once your domain is verified:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/69b5a4be-4294-4321-8467-a2de3e0b0def.jpg\" alt=\"Verifying domain ownership in Google Search Console\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">4. Once your website is verified at Google Search Console, click on <b>URL inspection<\/b> on the left. Enter the URL of the page you&rsquo;d like to index and click on <b>Request indexing<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/ec6920ab-95a0-4268-825d-1db74b6e3aad.jpg\" alt=\"Requesting Google to index a particular page of your website\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Repeat this step for the rest of the URLs you want Google to index.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The URL should contain WWW only if the <b><a href=\"\/support\/6502325-website-builder-www-prefix\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">WWW prefix<\/a><\/b> is enabled in your website&rsquo;s general settings &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It normally takes up to four weeks for Google to crawl and index any changes in your site \u2013 learn how to speed up the process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-website-builder"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6466565-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-request-google-to-index-website-pages\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6466565-hostinger-creador-de-sitios-web-como-solicitar-a-google-que-indexe-las-paginas-del-sitio-web\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6466565-hostinger-createur-de-site-web-comment-demander-a-google-d-indexer-les-pages-d-un-site-web\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6466565-hostinger-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-puslapiu-indeksavimas-google-paieskos-variklyje\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6466565-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-solicitar-que-o-google-indexe-suas-paginas\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}