Google Search Console Validate Fix Does Not Speed Up Things – Search Engine Roundtable
Using the “validate fix” button within Google Search Console to communicate to Google that you fixed an issue, does not signal to Google to expedite anything on its end. It just a reporting mechanism for you to track when Google recrawls the issue and for you to see if it was “fixed” according to Google or not but it does not speed anything up.
Google’s John Mueller confirmed this in a Reddit thread, when he said, “The “mark as fixed” here will only track how things are being reprocessed. It won’t speed up reprocessing itself.”
So if you think clicking that validate fix button will make it faster for your issues to be reprocessed by Google, it won’t. You can request Google to recrawl the page through the URL inspection tool, to try to speed things up, but the validate fix won’t do that for you.
Here is the validate fix button in Google Search Console for page indexing issues:
Now, with 404 pages, I do not expect these to be marked as fixed. I want most of these pages to 404. In…
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