GOOGLE Indexed in 24 SECONDS (My System Revealed & the BIGGER Picture)
Okay, I’ll try and keep this “short and simple” (which also happened to be my nickname at school, “short and simple” - kids can be soooo cruel).
Firstly, I’m not bashing “getting indexed”, and I think as a starter or someone with a brand new website receiving a WA email informing you that your content has been indexed is amazing.
It acts as great motivation and shows you that you’re definitely moving in the right direction.
HOWEVER
If you have set up the All-in-One SEO plugin correctly as per Kyle’s training:
AND
Installing The ALL-IN-ONE SEO plugin
And then if you follow Jay’s SEO Checklist Training as well:
Indexing should never be an issue.
You can also change your XML sitemap settings within the All-in-One SEO plugin to schedule updates (when Google crawls your site to check for updates) to Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
If you’re posting 2-3 times a week you may wish to change this to weekly, and then Google will crawl your site once a week and then index any new articles.
If you’re perhaps posting 5+ times a week, you may want to change it to daily, and Google will check your site for new content every single day.
I personally follow Jay’s training above and go to Google Search Console and use the “url inspection” option and request indexing whenever I’ve published an article.
So, by requesting indexing you should always be indexed very soon, although this may also depend on how often you post to your website, and indeeed the age of your website.
Don't Worry If You Don't Receive An "Indexed" Email
I also recall a discussion via the “Questions” here (I believe it was Phil’s question) where we spoke about not always receiving emails from WA to say we’ve been indexed.
This is no big deal and not a reason to worry. You may have been indexed already, but just not been notified.
You can check via Google Search Console, Google itself, or if you’ve used Site Content to produce your articles, then simply go to the published articles, find the article in question, and click the small “G” on the bottom left-hand side.
With that said, indexing (and those emails) are superb when you’re just starting out, but there’s a long way between being indexed and being ranked.
Case in point, one of my older websites has about 90 articles published and all of them are indexed, but only 18 articles actually rank in Google, Bing and Yahoo and are giving me any traffic.
But, I’ll stop chatting, I don’t want to be a “Debbie Downer” (apologies to any “Debbie’s” here, it’s just a turn of phrase, honestly!)
Indexing is GOOD.
But in reality you can be in charge of when you get indexed.
The 24-Second Indexing "Trick"
So, I have a fairly new website that I’m working on for the remainder of this year.
When I say “fairly new” is almost 5 months old now.
But in truth, for the first 3.5 months it only had an About Me page, Privacy Policy, and one article published on it.
By the end of month 4 I had 8 articles and an Affiliate Disclosure page added.
However, from the 1st September I have devoted my time to this site.
I have now added a further 16 articles in September.
I have got into a habit of writing and publishing 5 articles a week (typically between 2,200-2,500 words)
Once I published the articles I would share them on various social media sites and request indexing via Google Search Console.
However, due to my regular posting (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and either day over the weekend) I started to notice that I was receiving the “Awesome, Your Content is Indexed” emails at the same time of the day.
1.41pm BST (GMT +1) to be precise.
So, me being me (“short and simple” and obviously far too much time on my hands) I wanted to time it just right to see just how quickly I could get indexed.
From the information I’ve already provided in this post there’s no real benefit to getting indexed any quicker, and as I’ve mentioned if you follow the above training you will ALWAYS get indexed fairly quickly.
But still, I wanted to play a little game with Google.
Friday. I waited until 1.41pm and then published.
Immediately went to Google Search Console and requested indexing.
HURRY UP!!!
Why does it always seem as though GSC takes forever when you’re trying to beat Google.
Nope, missed it.
I had to wait 24 hours to get indexed.
I tried again on Saturday with a new article.
This time I published at 1.40pm (and 30 seconds).
Went to GSC.
Dammit!!
I missed the boat again.
Indexed on Sunday.
So, today was going to be my day.
New article published at 1.40pm on the dot.
IMMEDIATELY requested indexing (the tab was already open at GSC url inspection)
And then I waited.
Checked my phone.
Looked at my email.
Had I missed the indexing time again?
Nope!!
24 seconds after publishing my article and requesting indexing I received this.
Right, now get back to actually doing some "proper" work.
Remember, indexing is great. Follow the training above and indexing will never be an issue for you.
Now get to promoting those indexed posts and get them ranking.
Thank you for reading.
Partha
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As you already said, getting an article indexed is great but the hard part is really the ranking!
And the bottom line is that no money will be earned unless it ranks! 🙂
The funny thing about the email from Wealthy Affiliate (content indexed) for me is that they have no "set time"...
I checked about 20 of them and they are all over the place. None of them has the same time. I publish as soon as an article is ready and never look at the time so it might be the reason...
And the time it takes to get the email is also not steady. Sometimes it will take up to 2 days to get it...
Hi Denis,
Yep, you've hit the nail on the head in terms of ranking and traffic (and then conversions obviously).
Plus I've definitely had the "indexed email" at various times of the day.
I think the reason for the current "phenomenon" is because with the site I'm working on atm, I tend to write my articles the previous day.
I then perform other tasks the following morning, and finally get round to checking the article and the publishing it some time in the afternoon.
And it tends to be almost the same time every day.
I guess because I've been doing this regularly now for a few weeks, and requesting indexing via GSC it's become a "thing".
However, I should mention that someone somewhere is slacking today - I didn't receive my email until 1.42pm today, LOL.
Partha
I love this Partha, but just to add, in case it confuses anyone, Google doesn't only add you to their database once a day, this is just when the WA servers perform their test to see if they can find your content within Google, at which point, they then send you an email.
If you really want to see how quick this is, you could publish your post, then use the URL Inspection tool, then start your stopwatch and then search Google for site:domain.com/post-name until it appears ;-)
Oh Chrystopher,
Why did you have to say that?
That'll be another 3 afternoons of my life (that I'll never get back) playing around with Google, LOL.
That's great info actually and makes perfect sense.
Partha
haha apologies Partha ;-)
Foruntely, it won't take 3 days this time, as there's nothing to wait for in between tests ;-)
When you publish your next post, get Google open and ready, then use the URL Inspection Tool, then do a search ;-)
Job done :-)
And sleep!!
Hahaha,
I'm about three-quarters of the way through tomorrow's article now.
Will finish it off tonight (I normally check and re-check the following day, so I'm almost looking at it with "fresh eyes" and then add my images, videos, links, etc.).
So, look out for the "Indexed in 2 Seconds" blog or the "I'm Never Listening to Chrystopher Again" blog tomorrow.
Partha
Sounds good and I'm looking forward to reading "I'm Never Listening to Chrystopher Again" blog post from you ;-)
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Partha, for someone "short and simple", you sure do push a mighty punch. 🙂
I love this post!
when I first joined WA I got a thrill from making sure that I was getting indexed quckly.
Now, I do nothing because I realsied what is most important - promoting to build traffic and ranking.
All my posts on my 3 sites are indexed in their own time and now, usually promptly.
Traffic!
That is where 95% of my energy is placed these days.
Thank you for the much-needed reminder.
Cassi
Why thank you Cassi.
Yes, to be honest I'm not overly worried about indexing nowadays, it's always going to happen, and usually quickly as your sites age.
I guess I just request indexing out of habit more than anything else.
You are of course perfectly correct - getting ranked and getting traffic is where it's at.
Although, even that needs some tweaks occasionally, as traffic still doesn't guarantee conversions (which is basically what we're looking for).
But you know that anyway.
Thank you as always.
Partha
Very true, Partha!
Conversions!!!
I love the sound of that. 🙂🙂
Cheers to that!
Cassi