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If you're not in the top 5 results, there's no difference between not being indexed vs being indexed. If you want to be indexed, submit your pages to Google ex

If you're not in the top 5 results, there's no difference between not being indexed vs being indexed. If you want to be indexed, submit your pages to Google explicitly through a GA tag, a Google Search Console account, and a sitemap. If you're publishing many, many pages, you might see a benefit with the indexing API: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/qu... > I have been a web designer since 2016, and before that I was a blogger for 6 plus years. I have been deeply interested in Google SEO since 2010, and in all that time I’ve never heard of Google not indexing a site. Google crawls sites it assumes will have useful content. If it doesn't have that assumption for your site, you need to feed it.

ris58h 3y ago
> If you want to be indexed, submit your pages to Google explicitly through a GA tag, a Google Search Console account, and a sitemap. What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site? I have a GitHub pages site with a very unique topic and it's still not indexed by Google (the site is available at least for 8 month now). I've checked Bing and my site is on the 4-th place on the results page.
- dawnerd 3y ago
  Use a sitemap, that’s not google specific at all.
- ahstilde 3y ago
  > What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site? Then you're choosing to make it harder to be platformed by Google. Regardless, a GSC account and submitting a sitemap do not require you to serve any Google-related "stuff".
user_666 3y ago
That's my blog post. The convention site in question had a GA tag, and it was in search console, and I had submitted a sitemap. Search Console knee the site had 9 pages in the sitemap, and had only indexed the homepage. The other pages weren't rejected, declined or 404ed - they were simply ignored.
lgats 3y ago
Currently, the Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject.
- ahstilde 3y ago
  As we all know, documentation always matches behavior 1:1.

ris58h 3y ago

> If you want to be indexed, submit your pages to Google explicitly through a GA tag, a Google Search Console account, and a sitemap. What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site? I have a GitHub pages site with a very unique topic and it's still not indexed by Google (the site is available at least for 8 month now). I've checked Bing and my site is on the 4-th place on the results page.

dawnerd 3y ago
Use a sitemap, that’s not google specific at all.
ahstilde 3y ago
> What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site? Then you're choosing to make it harder to be platformed by Google. Regardless, a GSC account and submitting a sitemap do not require you to serve any Google-related "stuff".

user_666 3y ago

That's my blog post. The convention site in question had a GA tag, and it was in search console, and I had submitted a sitemap. Search Console knee the site had 9 pages in the sitemap, and had only indexed the homepage. The other pages weren't rejected, declined or 404ed - they were simply ignored.

lgats 3y ago

Currently, the Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject.

ahstilde 3y ago
As we all know, documentation always matches behavior 1:1.