Re-index updated post and update cached AMP version

Re-index updated post and update cached AMP version - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about seo, google-search-console, google-search, googlebot to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Re-index updated post and update cached AMP version.Problem :

I have a post I just updated on a site. This site gets picked up in google almost instantly but this post that I updated is not getting updated. As a matter of fact the post in mobile index, which is AMP, is showing the old post with no updated text, title and featured image. Below are the things I have changed in the post:

1. Added more text with an update


2. Added a new featured image


3. Added "Updated - 9/8/17" to the title


4. Updated meta title

Things I have done to get the post picked up:

1. Requested to re-crawl the page in Search Console.


2. Posted updated post on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

My site setup:

1. XML Sitemap linked to Search Console


2. Structured data for articles in json format that includes: post title, post description, post published date, post last updated date, images, author and etc.


3. Google News active


4. AMP enabled

No idea why its not being picked up. Its been a few hours.I am concerned because this is a very important post designed to communicate with our customers about event cancellations due to Irma.

Should I change the publish date to now and request a crawl again?

Solution :

If your post is in AMP be sure that after the update the real url of the post did not change! Otherwise for Google it will be another page. Some CMS for some reason change the ulr. For example your post was

https://yourdomain.com/yourcms/posts/good-pizza20170101.php

can became

https://yourdomain.com/yourcms/posts/good-pizza20170908.php

or something like that

Another things is that if the post is served in Google result as AMP the URL will be not your but probably the URL of the Google server where your post has been cached. To update the cache you must visit your post from the URL of the cache:

"To take advantage of the Google AMP Cache, an AMP URL must be accessed directly from the cache using the AMP Cache URL format. Each time a user accesses AMP content from the cache, the content is automatically updated, and the updated version is served to the next user once the content has been cached." at least this is what Google state: AMP on Google

If the issue about seo, google-search-console, google-search, googlebot is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.