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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by ahstilde on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:14AM (#36196447)
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.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by ris58h on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:02AM (#36197162)
> 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.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by dawnerd on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:37AM (#36197856)
Use a sitemap, that’s not google specific at all.
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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by ahstilde on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:17PM (#36203763)
> 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".

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by user_666 on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:05AM (#36197212)
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.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by lgats on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:08PM (#36201670) 

    Currently, the Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject.
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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by ahstilde on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:16PM (#36203728)
As we all know, documentation always matches behavior 1:1.
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