Comments on: LowFruits Case Study Site, Month 4: How to Solve Indexing Issues on a New Website https://lowfruits.io/blog/lowfruits-case-study-site-month-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lowfruits-case-study-site-month-4 Analyze the SERPs Faster, Find Weak Spots Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:24:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Dim https://lowfruits.io/blog/lowfruits-case-study-site-month-4/#comment-4144 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:24:13 +0000 https://blog.lowfruits.io/?p=356#comment-4144 @John thanks!

And fully agree with you that a sitemap is key for efficient crawling. One of the first things I do when I set up a website is to install Yoast, no-index taxonomy and author archives, then enable and submit a sitemap for the pages and posts.

Sadly, having one submitted in Google Search Console for this site hasn’t helped indexation (which started out fantastically, articles getting picked up almost the next day, and stalled at Month 3-4).

Still, it will resolve sooner or later, with or without the help of these tactics above. When trying to nudge Google, you never know if you’re really trying to change the lightbulb on the ceiling by tilting the fridge sideways =)

]]> By: Dim https://lowfruits.io/blog/lowfruits-case-study-site-month-4/#comment-4143 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:14:51 +0000 https://blog.lowfruits.io/?p=356#comment-4143 Thanks for sharing, Eliot! The plot, as they say, thickens =)

I was just chatting with Yoyao of Niche Surfer how, after seeing him write about RankMath’s Instant Indexing plugin in his email newsletter and watching Carl Broadbent talk about the results he had with it on one of this sites in a video on his YouTube channel, I’m keeping this option in my back pocket as a last resort in case none of my other tactics work out.

I’ve heard quite a few stories about website owners resolving indexation issues with success using Google’s Instant Indexing API, even on content types that don’t classify as job postings or live broadcasts.

Who knows, perhaps Google caught on and adjusted the inner workings of the tool. Or maybe this is a play to discourage people from “abusing” it.

Dim

]]> By: John https://lowfruits.io/blog/lowfruits-case-study-site-month-4/#comment-4142 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:06:13 +0000 https://blog.lowfruits.io/?p=356#comment-4142 Submitting your XML sitemap can help a lot, anyway you are doing great.

]]> By: Eliot Prince https://lowfruits.io/blog/lowfruits-case-study-site-month-4/#comment-4141 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:31:34 +0000 https://blog.lowfruits.io/?p=356#comment-4141 I have just noticed today that the indexing API doesn’t work as well as it might appear!

Instant indexing doesn’t actually work… I’ve just been researching this and you can’t trust the response from GSC saying an article is indexed. If it’s not a job posting or live stream, nothing actually happens. Google does crawl your page but it won’t find the markup it’s looking for so the result is nothing happens.

It’s explained here:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-indexing-api-other-content-types-32957.html

I have confirmed this by comparing GSC coverage with the pages indexed by searching “Site:mysite.com”. Plus Google have confirmed this themselves.

Using the indexing API for the wrong type of pages won’t help (or hurt). It’s just irrelevant to what the API does.

Annoying but thought people should know and double check the rate of indexing!!

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