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I can also vouch that what the author is saying is true. I've started publishing my notes, and I found that after three weeks none of them were indexed (and yes I submit a sitemap through google webmaster tools). I have since started using the URL inspector tool and adding them one by one. That does work.

If you're mass-producing low-quality sites you would do that on day 1 with each of them. So it likely doesn't weigh positively as much as we would hope.

That is my blog post.

I did that with the convention site, yes. It still wasn't getting indexed.

Did you build any links to the site? Links=Votes=Trust in Google's eyes....for better or worse. Even a tweet or Pinterest pin?

yep, all of that!