Updating Meta Tag error quickly besides submit to index in Webmaster Tools
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For a conference page marketing built the meta tag didn't have correct year and date of the conference. I updated and used webmaster tools submit to index to try and get it updated in google search quickly but meta tag has not updated.
Are there other avenues to get this corrected?
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That is a great question. We have a very active site we added some new info into meta desc about 8weeks ago. One search (not a very large # search on that phrase) still has the old info while all others have new. I believe it is due to # of servers, etc. with Google.
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You may also try to build some links into the page, as well as sharing it on social networks, particularly Google+, to get the big G to recrawl and revisit the page and update the meta info it is displaying.
Good luck,
Mark
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Thanks, so when does a meta tage change usually begin to show up in SERP on all searches?
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Ralph,
In WMT, assuming this is not what you meant, you can use fetch as Google on the specific url and it may help. There is no guarantee and I have noted before that under certain searches, you may still see an older meta description snippet in the SERPs. (Note, this is not the real intent of Fetch as Google, it is for checking issues on the site as they relate to crawlability and it will not follow redirects.)
You can also resubmit the Sitemap.
Here is Fetch as Google from GWMT in case you don't have handy.
Hope this helps you out,
Robert
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