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Game not indexed after name have been changed?

A topic by Toonik Games created Mar 18, 2021 Views: 176 Replies: 2
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Hi. I have faced an issue (or maybe bug?). After changing the game name one month ago, the game is still not appearing in google searches. But with old name I steel can find it by searching in google (name is changed from "Driving multiplayer rpg" into "Driver's work trip"). I am also thinking about to change my username into game compony name, and worried, that it is also will bring new issues with indexing. Can someone please help me with this?
With best regards.

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Title is a bit misleading, as your game is indexed properly in Itch.io when searching “Driver’s work trip”. Itch.io has no control over how external search engines (like Google) index and cache their results.

I believe Google has a page where you can request a webpage to be re-indexed, but I can’t remember where to find it.

Thank you for your response. The problem is that if I was the owner of the website that I need to reindex than I could use Google Webmaster Tools to request for indexing. But in this case I can't submit Url of Itch.io, because it want verification that I am the website owner.  Other than that tool I couldn't find :(

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