/ Plain-English guides](https://getfullstacksolutions.com/guides/index.html)/ Google keeps showing an old version of my site. Why won't it update? SEO · people search: “Google keeps showing an old version of my site. Why won't it update?” # Google keeps showing an old version of my site. Why won't it update? You updated the page yesterday and Google still shows last month. It's not broken — it's crawl and cache logic. Here is how to hurry it up. Plain English · no jargon · 4-minute read By Rodrigo Valenzuela Iturrieta](https://getfullstacksolutions.com/about/index.html), the engineer who does the work · Published September 18, 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026 Part of **Servers & Infrastructure](https://getfullstacksolutions.com/services/infrastructure/index.html) — read first, then fix it in 48h. Copy link Print Share Know someone with this exact problem? Pass it on — no email gate. You change a page, publish it, and the preview snippet still shows what you removed two weeks ago. It feels like Google is ignoring you, but the truth is more mechanical: Google only updates what it recrawls, and it recrawls on its own schedule unless something tells it to hurry. Between your page and that snippet sit three layers — your host's cache — A ready-made copy of your pages kept warm so the server doesn't rebuild everything on every visit., your CDN — Content Delivery Network — copies of your files served from cities near each visitor, so pages load faster worldwide.'s cache, and Google's own cache and index — and each one can hold an older copy. Knowing which one is stuck is the entire diagnostic. ## Check these first, yourself - Open `site:yourdomain.com/pagename` and click the cached/About this result preview: the screenshot shows which layer serves the old copy — Google's cache, or your server. - Check your page's last crawl date in Search Console (URL Inspection → 'Last crawl'). If the crawl date is old, Google hasn't re-visited — that's the layer to speed up. - Request a re-crawl from that same URL Inspection panel: 'Request Indexing'. Google queues it, and a real update usually follows within a day or two. - Clear your CDN and hosting — The service that runs your site on a server; the plan you pick decides your speed ceiling and your crash risk. cache for that URL. If the CDN still serves the old HTML, even a perfect recrawl will re-capture a stale page — cache invalidation belongs to you, not Google. ### When to call a rescue instead of doing it yourself If the stale copy is costing you — old prices, old content, old claims — and the quick re-crawl isn't landing, the cause is usually deeper: server/CDN caching rules, redirects, or pages that Google quietly dropped. 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If your page's priority is low or your CDN keeps serving identical-old content, Google has little reason to re-crawl. It's not a penalty and not a blacklist — it's crawl economics.How long does a re-crawl request take?Usually a day to a few days for a normal page. If a week passes with no new 'last crawl' date, the deeper three-layer check (host cache, CDN, redirect) is where the problem sits.Does 'Request Indexing' cost anything?No, it's free in Google Search Console and you can use it on one page at a time. What it doesn't do is override technical staleness — a cached CDN still hands Google the old file regardless of your request. Skip the diagnosis ## Get this fixed in 48 hours, flat rate Same problem, less sleep lost. 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