How do I ask Google to crawl my website?
In Google Search Console, use the URL Inspection tool: paste in the exact page URL, and if it hasn't been crawled or needs a refresh, click "Request Indexing." This forces Google to recrawl that specific page sooner rather than waiting for its normal crawl schedule.
For a whole new site, submitting your sitemap through Search Console is the broader version of the same request, it tells Google every page that exists so it can start crawling from there instead of relying on stumbling onto pages through links.
Whether you call it crawling, indexing, recrawling, or reindexing, the fix is the same: request it directly through Search Console. There's no separate tool or setting for each term, they all point to the same action.
How do I check if Google already crawled my site?
In Search Console, go to the Coverage report under Indexing. It shows every page Google has crawled, along with any that were found but not indexed, and why. You can also check a single URL directly with the URL Inspection tool, it shows the last crawl date if one has happened.
What does "submitted URL has crawl issue" mean?
This is a specific error Search Console shows when a URL was included in your sitemap but Google ran into a problem trying to crawl it, a server error, a timeout, or a page that returned something other than a normal 200 response. Fixing it usually means checking that the page loads correctly and returns the right status code, then requesting indexing again once it's fixed.