Your changes appear on your website as soon as you save them. Google keeps its own copy of your website, so its search results can show the old version for a while.
Usually you do not need to do anything
Google revisits most websites about once a week and updates its copy then. When you change a title, a description or an image, search results catch up on their own. Other search engines work the same way, on their own schedules.
If you want Google to look sooner
Ask Google to look at your website again with Google Search Console, a free tool from Google. Google describes it on its own help pages, Ask Google to Recrawl Your Website:
- To have Google look at one page again, use the URL Inspection tool. You must first be a verified owner of your website in Search Console, and Google guides you through that.
- Asking does not put your page in the results at once. Google decides when to include it, and how long it takes varies.
Google's screens and wording change from time to time, so follow what Search Console shows you.
When you remove a page
A page you delete can stay in search results for a while. Google sets no fixed time, and in our experience it can take up to about two months to disappear. Asking Google to look again, as above, can speed it up.
Check that your website is listed
Type site: followed by your website's address into Google, with no space after the colon, such as site:janeartist.com. Google describes this on its Get Your Website on Google page. The results are not always complete, and Google says it can take a few weeks to notice a new website or changes to it.
To learn how Google chooses what to show, see How Your Website Appears in Google.
Meta Tags in Advanced Settings
The Advanced page in the Settings menu has a Meta Tags section with a Meta Description box for a short description of your website, and a Meta Keywords box for a comma-separated list of keywords. Select Update Advanced Settings to save them.
Most search engines now ignore these tags, because they were misused in the past. Filling them in does not make Google show your changes sooner. Some other tools on the internet still read them, so it does not hurt to fill them in.