For some reason it refuses to index my site(s) until I link the site to my Google account in search console. I had organically placed a lot of links (on my GH,

For some reason it refuses to index my site(s) until I link the site to my Google account in search console. I had organically placed a lot of links (on my GH, Linkedin profiles, no spam anywhere). It did not index even the links for over a month, despite me searching the exact domain multiple times. I guess doing it via search console just showed it the exact domains it has to crawl, making it's job easier