Google Search Console Question
Published on August 25, 2019
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What's the difference?
Now that Google did away with the old version of the Webmaster Tool, I noticed some differences that may, or may not, influence the ranking of posts/pages.
One is the eliminating of 'FETCH AS' function. Back in the good old days, once you did 'fetch' the post was usually crawled and indexed within a day, at the most.
The new 'URL inspection on the other hand seems to be just that, and Google crawls whenever they have scheduled a crawl of your site. So, this is a bit of a drawback
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The other difference I noticed is the following.I published 20 posts the last 24 days on a new site and submit the URL right away after publishing.
I checked their status last night and...
about half of them have a STATUS of
Indexed, Not submitted in sitemap
while the other half shows as
Submitted and indexed
and when you open the toggle it shows the URL/sitemap.xml
Does anyone have a clue of what's the difference and how it affects ranking?
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