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Just click here and enter your site URL and some comments and hope they add you :)

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A short, modern checklist to actually speed discovery (not myths): the old “click the Add URL” move mentioned is outdated. Today the practical sequence is: verify the site in Google Search Console, use the URL Inspection tool to test the live page and — for priority pages — click Request Indexing. That pushes the URL into Google’s crawl queue (it’s helpful, but not a guaranteed instant index and has daily quotas). URL Inspection / Request Indexing explainer. (searchengineland.com)

Submit an XML sitemap from your site root and keep it honest: absolute URLs, sensible lastmod values, and split files if you have >50k URLs. Submit it in Search Console so you can see processing errors; sitemaps are a discovery hint, not a promise that every URL will be indexed. Example robots.txt line to point to a sitemap:

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

[Build and submit a sitemap (Google Search Central)]. (developers.google.com)

If a page won’t index, usually something is blocking it. Common causes: a noindex meta or X‑Robots‑Tag, blocking rules in robots.txt, wrong canonical, server 4xx/5xx responses, or JS that prevents rendering. Test the live URL in Search Console, and use a quick server check like:

curl -I https://example.com/that-page

Fix any noindex/HTTP errors and re-request indexing. Also understand crawl capacity: for most sites Google revisits on its schedule (often days), so don’t expect instant indexing for everything. (developers.google.com)

For faster notifications to Bing and other IndexNow participants, implement IndexNow (generate a key, host the key file, submit changed URLs) or use Bing Webmaster’s URL submission for priority pages. Avoid blasting low-quality directory networks — mass directory submissions rarely help and can look like link-scheme activity; focus on clean internal links, a few authoritative external links, and fixing technical blockers first. IndexNow FAQ · [Google on link spam / qualifying links]. (indexnow.org)

Quick actionable summary: verify in GSC, inspect + fix, submit sitemap, request indexing for priority pages, implement IndexNow/Bing for push, and stop mass low‑quality directory blasts (they’re often counterproductive). This builds on points from , , and others but turns them into a step‑by‑step troubleshooting workflow.

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Member Avatar for stymiee

That won't get your site indexed quicker. But it is something every webmaster should do when launching site.

Member Avatar for neuronimbus

Just click here and enter your site URL and some comments and hope they add you :)

So, what's new in that...

Please explore some new ideas...

Member Avatar for The Dude

But it is something every webmaster should do when launching a site.

Yes.....I wonder if the page i listed is well known or not.........

Member Avatar for Dani

This is what happens when a Geek's Lounger ventures into the Site Management category.

Member Avatar for bobchrist

If you have good content and backlinks google itself will find you and index, there is no need of submission.

Member Avatar for stymiee

But you should still submit your site anyway as it is the only guaranteed way to know the search engines find your site. Considering it takes only a couple of minutes to submit to all three major search engines it definitely shouldn't be ignored.

Member Avatar for The Dude

This is what happens when a Geek's Lounger ventures into the Site Management category.

Im sorry matey,i didnt mean to cause a fuss :(

Member Avatar for stymiee

It's no fuss. :)

Member Avatar for Dani

I was just joking.

Member Avatar for The Dude

Hehe,ok........

Member Avatar for x3mario

Frequent update of your site makes the bot to crawl. It doesn't need to submit your site to google.

Member Avatar for stymiee

But they have to know about you first. ;)

Member Avatar for beamup

How about directories? How long them to get indexed. Cause I really dont have much article content there, I have submitted to almost 500 directories and still doing it, and crated sitemap, added to google/url but still havent indexed yet? Any suggestions

Steve

Member Avatar for x3mario

I did not know also the specific number of days before your site will be crawl when you submit it to directory. But in my experience, my blogs was indexed by Google and MSN after 3 days without submitting to directories.

Member Avatar for cooluks

How about directories? How long them to get indexed. Cause I really dont have much article content there, I have submitted to almost 500 directories and still doing it, and crated sitemap, added to google/url but still havent indexed yet? Any suggestions

Steve

Update your site contents from time to time... And by the way Google indexing nowadays is faster unlike the other 2 SEs (yahoo and msn)...

Member Avatar for stymiee

Update your site contents from time to time... And by the way Google indexing nowadays is faster unlike the other 2 SEs (yahoo and msn)...

Actually most people claim the opposite.

Member Avatar for microtekblue

For google one of the faster methods to get your site indexed is open a google blog at blogger.com and create a feed for the blog through feedburner.com, and Ping your blog at blogsearch.google.com/ping, and THEN do some posts with your site link included.

Just one method I sometimes use...I find it really helpful.

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