How to speed up indexing of links and pages
We break down why indexing is slow and which methods really speed up getting pages and backlinks into search.
Until a search bot visits a page, it does not exist for search. It brings no traffic and passes no weight to links. New pages and fresh backlinks sometimes wait weeks to be crawled, especially on young sites. You can speed this up, and below we cover the methods that work.
1. A sitemap and keeping it updated
A sitemap is a list of your pages for the search engine. Keep it current and reachable at the address in robots.txt. When you add new pages, they should appear in the sitemap immediately. Many services and CMSs update it automatically.
2. Internal links
A bot finds pages by following links. If no internal link points to a new page, the bot may not notice it for a long time. Link fresh content to sections that are already indexed.
3. Notifying search engines directly
Protocols like IndexNow let you tell Bing, Yandex and other engines about a new page right away. It is not an indexing guarantee, but it noticeably shortens the time to the first crawl.
4. Crawling backlinks
A backlink only works once a bot has crawled it. After a run through Xrumer, GSA or manual placement, links often sit uncrawled. Uploading them to an indexing service helps get each one crawled.
5. Page quality and availability
A bot will not spend its budget on slow, duplicate or noindexed pages. Check the response code, robots.txt and meta tags. For a quick check use our free indexing checker.
aitunz combines several methods: it brings Google, Yandex, Bing and AI-search bots to your links and shows for each who has already visited.