Comment by ahstilde | Hacker News Reader

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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.

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.

> 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.

> 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".

Use a sitemap, that’s not google specific at all.

    Currently, the Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject.

As we all know, documentation always matches behavior 1:1.

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