There are complaints in the BlackHatWorld forums that the Google Indexing API is not working. Some are saying Google is returning a call saying all is good but when it comes to indexing the content, it is not happening.
Some are saying it is just an issue with indexing and others are saying it has to do with the Google Indexing API. I did see some random indexing complaints over the past day or so, but I always see indexing complaints.
This site is not having issues being indexed, so I suspect it is more of a specific.
Here are some complaints in the BlackHatWorld Forums:
Today I have problem on Google Indexing API - The links are succesfully sent to indexing, 200 OK status code, but I have no request from Googlebot. I have tried with multiple domains and accounts.
It's a major problem or update, many indexing services that has been using it got their services in hold
You're not alone who is facing this problem after new update.
Anyone tried the schema they said it's working with? I tried Jobposting embedded in Videoobject, but this doesn't work either.
Google did recently clarify their spam rules around the Indexing API. But I don't think any new action was specifically taken, I think it was Google just being clear about the rules.
As a reminder, John Mueller of Google said most sites wrongfully using the indexing API are spammy anyway. As a reminder, the Google Indexing API should just be used for job postings and live stream content - nothing else. Google has said if you use it for other purposes it won't work. Many who have tried it over the years said it works to get your content indexed fast but then it drops out of the index quickly after.
Also, Google does not index everything and we see that after core updates we see complaints about indexing. Why? Because indexing requires some level of quality and Google will not index pages it finds to not meet a certain threshold of quality. Since we just had the August 2024 core update, these types of complaints following are not really new.
Here are times in the past we covered a topic like this:
- Google On Being On The Edge Of Indexing Is A Quality Issue
- On The Edge Of Google's Quality Threshold - Pages Disappear & Return After Submission
- Google: A Page Needs To Pass Quality Checks For Indexing
- Google On Pages Popping In & Out Of The Google Index
- Google Deindexing Your Site? It Might Be Related To Quality Issues.
- Google's Gary Illyes Not Surprised When SEOs Complain When Low Quality Content Is Not Indexed
- Google: If You Need To Manually Submit Pages To Index Then You Need To Improve Site Quality
- How To Improve Google Indexing? Create Great, Unique & Compelling Content.
- Indexing Issues In Google May Be Related To May 2020 Core Update
Forum discussion at BlackHatWorld Forums.
