The Problem With New Sites

You deploy a content site with 100+ pages. You submit your sitemap to Google Search Console. Then you wait.

And wait.

After two weeks, Google has crawled maybe 15 pages. Your carefully written content is invisible. Sound familiar?

I ran into this exact problem with my side project — a 270-page content site across 5 locales. After a week, only ~35 pages were indexed. I needed a faster way.

The Solution: Google Indexing API + Bing URL Submission

Most developers don't know that Google has an Indexing API that lets you proactively notify Google when pages are created or updated.…