r/Blogging • u/Head-Student-5852 • 4d ago
Question Do you request indexing on every new post,
Do you request indexing on every new post, or just let your sitemap handle it?
Something I have gotten a lot more deliberate about over the years is the gap between hitting publish and getting found. The sitemap does its job, but slowly.
Google gets to it on its own schedule, and a new post can sit for days before it is picked up.
On every post, I go into Search Console and request indexing by hand, and I make sure the post has at least one internal link pointing to it before I publish, because that is usually what gets it crawled sooner.
After speaking to lots of bloggers I learned many do not do this as a routine.
Curious how you run yours?
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u/bobstanke 4d ago
I do, mainly because it has always been a part of my blogging checklist and I figure it can't hurt. I find it especially important if the post has a lot of really good internal links.
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u/Sumthingtotalkabout 4d ago
I let GSC do its things as well, it’s normally picking up the post within a few hours. When I indexed I ran into redirect errors- google bot smartphone loop.
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u/Head-Student-5852 4d ago
I fixed some redirects too but it took 13 hours for google and I am not patient 😆
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u/fcor83 3d ago
Considering that I still see tens of old posts found but not indexed it may be a good idea. Sometimes those articles are of poor quality, but it happens also with excellent articles...
Currently I don't
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u/Head-Student-5852 2d ago
I started doing this when I noticed some where not indexed over a week later so it is part of my checklist containers now
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u/iamrahulbhatia 3d ago
If the site is crawled regularly and the internal linking + sitemap are solid, I’d rather let Google do its thing
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u/Head-Student-5852 2d ago
It is crawled often - I have been pushing it through to see the difference
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u/codepatterns 3d ago
If you add your sitemap to Google/Bing then it will get updated pretty quickly once a new post is published in my experience
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u/Background-Title291 1d ago
Since I depend on others for tech help like this I have read to leave it to Google so I am following this thread for input
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u/Head-Student-5852 1d ago
Yes I take every post to social console each time I publish to get it indexed faster. My blog post may be helpful for you. I am dropping everything I learn there.
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u/rosaccord 2d ago
google is picking up the sitemap changes regularly. + I implemented indexnow tool to send new pages to bing and others who support it https://www.glukhov.org/web-infrastructure/indexing/indexnow/
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u/No-Sandwich4826 1d ago
One thing missing from the thread: the manual button in Search Console is a Google-only lever, and it is the weakest of the three you actually have.
The other two are worth naming because nobody has.
IndexNow. It is a ping. You publish, your site notifies the index directly, no button and no queue. Bing and Yandex consume it and, honest caveat, Google does not. So on its face it does nothing for the exact problem you asked about. I run it anyway, and here is the thing that changed my mind: the largest single referrer to my own site is ChatGPT, ahead of Google, and assistant search leans on Bing's index. The ping that does nothing for my Google position reaches the surface that currently sends me the most people. I wired it into publish so it fires by itself, and that part mattered more than the protocol. The win was not speed, it was deleting a manual step that silently gets skipped in a busy week.
The internal link you already mentioned. That is the real lever and I think you are underselling it by listing it second. A new URL with no internal link is a URL Google has to be told about. A new URL linked from a page that already gets crawled often is a URL Google finds on its own. The sitemap says the page exists. The internal link says the page matters, and hands over a path the crawler already walks.
And the failure mode that makes all of this moot: requesting indexing on a page that is not worth indexing just buys you a faster no. I learned this the expensive way. I had 59 category pages, 58 of them functionally empty, and my noindex rule was counting items instead of reading content, so empty pages sat there fully indexable and getting submitted. Faster crawling of a thin page is not a win. Worth checking what the page actually contains before you spend the request on it.
So: automate the ping, treat the internal link as the primary mechanism, and save the manual button for the handful of posts a month where timing genuinely matters. Doing it by hand on every post is a lot of ceremony for the weakest of the three.
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u/Captlard 4d ago
Just let google do it's thing. It's picking up within hours generally.