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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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