Old Post are not updating in Google Search

Hello,

I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your posts not updating in Google search results. It’s important to ensure that the updated content is reflected accurately in search results.

When updating your posts, it’s essential to follow best practices to ensure that Google’s crawlers recognize the changes. Here are a few steps you can take to help resolve this issue:

1. Structured Data and Last Modified Time: Ensure that the dateModified property in the Date Schema and the `tag in your sitemap accurately reflect the last time you modified the content. You can use the [Rich Results Test tool](https://search.google.com/test/rich-results) to check thedatePublishedanddateModified` properties.

2. Sitemap Settings: Check the last modified time of your post/page by navigating to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings from your WordPress dashboard. Click on the sitemap index URL and navigate to the page/post sitemap to verify the last modified time for your posts.

3. Update the Post/Page: After making changes to your content, ensure that you click the Update button within WordPress to save the changes. This will prompt Google to recrawl and update the content in its index.

4. Linking Updated Posts: While adding links to updated posts in new content can be helpful, it’s also important to ensure that the updated posts are being recrawled by Google.

If you’ve followed these steps and are still facing issues, please feel free to reach out to our support team directly from here, and we’re always here to help.

I hope this helps! If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Sources:
How to Change the Date & Time on Your Posts/Pages » Rank Math
How to Update SEO Score When N/A is Showing » Rank Math
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
How to Remove Date Snippets from Search Results » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

Can you please share some affected URLs with us so that we can check the issue further for you?

Meanwhile, please check your Google Search Console coverage section to determine any issues reported on your site: https://support.artlogic.net/hc/en-gb/articles/360016851260-Google-Search-Console-errors-and-coverage-issues

You can share the error message or take a screenshot using this tool and add the link here so we can check as well.

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

We checked your page on Google and looks like it has already been updated on SERPs.

Please note that it is completely normal to take time to crawl your pages by Google. It depends on a lot of factors. Your posting frequency + the domain authority are just two of the many factors Google considers when indexing some new URLs.

Google assigns a crawl budget to your website depending on these factors (especially these two) and that has a direct effect on how soon or how late your content can get updated on SERPs.

However, we have another Instant Indexing for Google plugin that you can use to get your website’s pages and content crawled immediately: https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.