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Comment by ahstilde

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/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.

parent ahstilde 3 years ago

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