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Case Study: Getting a Site Indexed by Doing Nothing

by irawr Banned
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There's been a bunch of posts lately about indexing and trying to get indexed fast and I have no idea why that's an issue. So I'm trying this!

I got the site setup, I have verified in multiple tools that it has zero backlinks. It doesn't ping or anything (turned it off), I don't have it setup in the Search Console, nothing. Lets see what happens!

It is a .com domain so I know there's a link to it somewhere from the domain tool websites.

Site:domain has zero results in google.

Note: Sooner or later, if it's not indexed I'm just going to build a link to it.
#case #indexed #site #study
  • Profile picture of the author irawr
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    Wow, I'm already getting comment spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author irawr
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      It's been about 2 hours. Saw these in my logs.

      crawl-66-249-69-132.googlebot.com

      msnbot-40-77-167-94.search.msn.com

      Appears the site has been crawled.

      I did absolutely nothing.
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      • Profile picture of the author irawr
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        domain is appearing in bing, no google.

        Also ranking in bing #6 on the title of the article (there's only 1 piece of content, a post)

        obviously really hard to rank in bing, I did nothing, granted I doubt anybody types that exact search into bing.
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        • Profile picture of the author irawr
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          Still not indexed by google, going to bed, I'm pretty sure it will be by tomorrow.
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          • Profile picture of the author irawr
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            I'm indexed in Google now. Google is now doing it's usual weird stuff that it does for new sites.

            So that was < 12 hours of waiting to get indexed and all I did was register a new .com domain, carefully install wordpress to avoid sending out any pings (to test this), made one post, and then waited.

            So to people who are having trouble getting a new site indexed, if you registered a domain, you likely have a link somewhere pointing to it. These are created automatically by some websites that offer domain name related tools. Some of these sites produce daily reports of freshly registered domains.

            To wrap this up:

            I don't actually recommend turning off pings, but I don't think they really do anything these days either way. If you are impatient, you can always just add your site in to your google search console account. The point of this thread was just to point out that indexing is super fast these days and if you are actually concerned about it, you really don't need to be.
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