Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your inquiry to us.
Using the “instant indexing” feature can speed up the indexing of your posts. However, there are additional steps you can take:
#1. Sitemap Submission: Ensure your website has an updated XML sitemap that includes all new posts. The sitemap generated by Rank Math can be accessed through this URL https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml (replace yourdomain.com with your site’s domain). Submit this sitemap to Google Search Console for efficient indexing: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
#2. Quality Content: Create high-quality, unique, and relevant content. Google tends to prioritize indexing valuable content faster.
#3. Internal Linking: Interlink your new posts with existing content on your website. This helps search engines discover and index new content more efficiently.
#4. Share your new posts on social media platforms. Search engines may notice and index your content faster when it’s shared widely.
#5. Mobile-Friendly: Ensure your website is mobile-friendly, as Google prioritizes indexing mobile content.
While the “instant indexing” feature and Google Search Console submission help, providing high-quality content and following SEO best practices will have a more significant impact on how quickly your posts get indexed and ranked by search engines.
We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thank you.
thanks i already have a sitemap since day 1 through rank math app. do i need to update it or the rank math app updates it automatically?
Hello,
Rank Math can automatically ping Google whenever you update your sitemap. To do that, you’ll have to connect your Google Search Console account in Rank Math > General Settings > Analytics and enable the Ping Search Engines option from Rank Math > Sitemap Settings > General: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/#ping-search-engines
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Thanks i already had the ping enabled. What is this option for? (Include Featured Images
Include the Featured Image too, even if it does not appear directly in the post content.)
Hello,
We’re assuming that you’re re referring this option:
The option, when enabled, would allow the Feature Image to be also included in the image section of the sitemap, i.e. the image count. By default, we could count the images in the actual post content, but when this option is enabled, we’ll also count the featured image.
We hope this helps clarify the issue. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us again.
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