How to Get Your Blog Indexed by Google Fast: 7 Steps (2026)
Want to get your blog indexed by Google quickly? A new blog or post can’t bring search traffic until Google has crawled it and added it to the index. That can take anywhere from a few hours to several weeks. You can’t force Google, but you can make your pages easy to find and worth indexing. Here is how to get your blog indexed by Google fast in 2026, updated from Andrew Rondeau’s original guest tips.
Quick answer: Add and verify your blog in Google Search Console, submit your XML sitemap, use the URL Inspection tool to request indexing for important new pages, link to new posts from existing pages, make sure nothing blocks Google (noindex, robots.txt, password protection), and publish genuinely useful content that earns links.
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7 steps to get your blog indexed by Google
1. Add your blog to Google Search Console
Go to Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools), click Add property and choose a Domain property (verified by a DNS record) or a URL prefix property (verified by an HTML tag, file, Google Analytics or Tag Manager). WordPress SEO plugins such as Rank Math can add the verification tag for you.
2. Submit your XML sitemap
WordPress creates a sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml, and SEO plugins like Rank Math or Yoast replace it with a better one (often /sitemap_index.xml). In Search Console open Sitemaps, enter the sitemap URL and submit. Also list it in robots.txt.
3. Request indexing for key pages
Paste a new URL into the URL Inspection bar at the top of Search Console and click Request indexing. There is a daily limit, so use it for important pages, not every post.
4. Link to new posts internally
Google discovers pages mainly through links. Link to each new post from your homepage, a related older post or a category page. Orphan pages with no internal links are often left out.
5. Make sure nothing blocks Google
- In WordPress, Settings > Reading: untick Discourage search engines from indexing this site.
- Check your SEO plugin isn’t setting posts to noindex.
- Check
robots.txtdoesn’t disallow your posts. - Remove “coming soon” or maintenance mode and password protection.
6. Also submit to Bing
Add your site to Bing Webmaster Tools; you can import it straight from Search Console. Bing powers several other search engines and supports IndexNow for instant URL submission.
7. Earn real links and mentions
Share new posts where your readers are, and write things others want to link to. Skip the old tricks from the original post such as forum signature links and mass social bookmarking; they don’t help and can look spammy. Read up on anchor text overuse before building links.
How to check if your blog is indexed
- Search
site:yourblog.comon Google for a rough count. - Use URL Inspection for an exact answer on one page.
- Open Indexing > Pages in Search Console to see which pages are indexed and why others aren’t.
Why Google may crawl but not index a page
“Crawled, currently not indexed” usually means Google didn’t think the page was useful enough: thin content, duplicates, or near-identical posts. Improve or merge those pages. Our SEO checklist covers the basics.
FAQ
How long does Google take to index a new blog?
Often a few days to a few weeks for a brand-new site. Established blogs with good internal linking can see new posts indexed within hours.
Does requesting indexing guarantee indexing?
No. It only asks Google to crawl the page; Google still decides whether to index it.
Do I need to submit every post?
No. A sitemap plus internal links is enough for most posts.
Originally written by guest author Andrew Rondeau, author of the free Income Blogging Guide. Updated for 2026 by QuickOnlineTips.
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The All in One SEO is the only plugin that ive had any success with on my wp sites. love it!
Its been 2-3 days since i submitted my blog but its still not indexed, will follow your advice and see if it gets indexed faster. thanks a lot
Hi Andrew!
I need some help…
Actually i submitted my site to google and got indexed… But i have some nearly 100 posts on my blog.
When i type site:lcdtvpricesinindia.info i get to see only about 5 to 6 url indexed. I submitted my sitemap to google webmastertool about 2 to 3 days back. I am not getting my posts indexed.
So please help me… I want to get my posts indexed…
Thanks in advance…
this is great info what i’m searching ..
thanks for this.
i will take note. :-)
I just got indexed too! It works fast!
I was getting indexed quickly but that all stopped in October. I’m now floundering for ideas.
Having heard a rumour google is now planning to buy the biggest merchant on this site I’m wondering if the two are related…
Most of the time it takes more then 24 hours. But if it takes more then a week you are doing something wrong.
I have a new website. I added the website to webmasters and hope that it works. Thanks for the suggestion.
My site has not been indexed yet. I am on blogspot and it upsets me when people say that WP does it all automatically! I have a wp blog too and notice that the posts there get indexed automatically.
Awesome tips! I’ve been trying to figure out how to index my site on Google for the longest!. Thanks so much :)
Thanks, nice info. Just signed up to google and uploaded sitemap, now for those social bookmarks. I love google and how thanks to sites like this one I can learn simple ways to make things work. Thanks again. Paul
I thought it would be hard but!! I followed the google webmaster tools instructions and that was it (“,)
please tell me one thing that my vbulletin forum running vbSEO Tool but it is not working correctly or not submiting current links to google what to do? is really need to create new sitemap and submit again to google after new post???
Thanks for the tips. There always seems like there is more to learn about optimization of a site. And Vinny, if I can get my site optimized in 1 minute, well, I would feel all powerful! Ha!
Good Luck and Thanks,
Chica
Thats some cool tips I heard first through this post.Indexing in google is really easy now.
ha ha indexed in 24 hours? 5 steps? how about indexed in 10 seconds. Maximum 1 minute thats my results. :-)
Do we need to submit sitemap to Google after every blog post?
Get a wordpress plugin which does that automatically after every post.
Adding it to blog communities helps and most are free Mybloglog, Blogcatalog, Blogged,and Networkedblogged are good ones. Make sure to describe your blog properly and include relevant keywords and tags
Thanks for the 5 tips in getting blog indexed i am trying to find out why some pages in the blog are indexed and others are not.
Gosh Finaly I see the perfect steps with the help! I’m dealing with my blog – it has more then 4800 visits BUT all of the visits came not from Google !!! Now I hope this will work !!
most social bookmarking sites are nofollow so dunno if that helps anymore.
Hi,
First of all Thank you, and the most important thing is, I was very worried as my website was taking too long to be indexed, I have been looking for number of resources on how to get my site indexed fast and that is when I landed over your web page, I tried everything you said above, and it got indexed in less than 6-hours :)
Thank you
I posted a question on digitalpoint forum then I tried to do some googling before my question is answered. Unbelievably, I found my own question my google in less than a couple of minutes.
i was doing this tips long time ago, but why my site: laptoplink.org didn’t index by google until now,
this tips is working very well with my other site,
can anyone help me???
regards,
Its depend on your domain age also, in my experiences, my site can indexed by google just in a few minute after posting
Can I please ask you few questions. Can you pls provide your email.
Sourish
Thanks for those kinds words – I wish you all the success…good luck.
Andrew
Is it really so fast? Within one day? My experience does not says so!
Although it helps. But not so fast.
WordPressGuy,
Followin what I mention in the post, some of my new blog posts get indexed within just a few hours – 24 hours maximum, nowadays.
Andrew
Hey Andrew,
I got some of my posts indexed between 7 minutes and 1 hour these days, today my post got indexed in 7 minutes! I have no idea why this differences on time, but it’s find if as it’s not taking the whole day.
nice post!
Hesham
That’s fast!
Andrew
I went through your seo optimized blog sometime back while googling. Good to see your article here. You have a very nice keyword there i your domain. I just like it ,a well organized neat blog. On your Foot steps.
regards,
Sourish
Hey awesome… can’t believe i re-visited my robots.txt file & now all my pages are getting crawled… plz ignore the prev comment :)
Thanks for the info though…
Cheers
Om
Om,
Great news!
Andrew
Hi, great article – actually i need some help at this moment, because i am extremely frustrated with the fact that one of my sub-domain is NOT getting INDEXED since past 1month…
I’ve my site – om-nanya.com & i started an autoblog – autoblog.om-nanya.com about couple of months back… I’ve done ezine submissions, posted in numerous forums, built back-links, submitted my blog to Google, digg, buzz.yahoo, delicious, stumble but no use…
It has 28unique posts – it showed probs with robots.txt file – i never had one, so i created one & gave full access to Adsense and Googlebot crawlers… yet no success
Can you check this sub-domain & predict what’s possibly wrong – ?
FYI: Adsense is showing public service ads!! Damn…
I can’t figure out why I was automatically indexed and can successfully search my shetrekkers.wordpress.com site but my shetrekkers.blogspot.com site won’t come up even when I put the complete address in google search. I have added it to the index, spammed other posts, and enabled my site feed. I also added it on Facebook and have the name plastered everywhere. I just don’t get it. How can the one company who creates blogger not index it as easily as wordpress. I would use wordpress if it were more user-friendly…I just get frustrated using it!! Blogger is so easy to use.
Anyway…help…I don’t want to be stuck with wordpress!!