Once you’ve connected Byword to Google Search Console, you can have Byword automatically index your content for you. This speeds up how quickly Google finds and ranks your new content.
Just because Google has found your site’s content doesn’t mean it’ll actually appear in search results. For your content to appear on results pages and start generating traffic, it needs to be indexed.Getting your content indexed can be a lengthy process, especially for newer sites. Byword helps accelerate this process by connecting with the Google Indexing API, allowing your content to start receiving traffic as quickly as possible.
This is an advanced Byword feature that requires careful setup. Please follow all steps below carefully.
We’ll then head to the service accounts page, and create a new service account.Fill out the details on the following page. These don’t affect functionality - just use details that make sense to you.You may be asked to fill in two optional steps around granting access. You can skip both of these and hit ‘Done’.
When you have automatic indexing enabled, Byword will submit URLs from your site’s sitemaps to Google’s indexing API on a daily basis. There are a few important things to understand:
Byword submitting a URL to the indexing API is not a guarantee that the URL will get indexed. However, it significantly increases the probability and decreases the timeframe for indexing.
Google limits each project to 200 URL submissions per day. If you need to index more URLs daily, you can create multiple Google Cloud projects by following the setup steps again for each new project.
Does this only work on my Byword articles?
No, Byword’s automatic indexing works with any URLs in your sitemap. This means you can use it for both Byword-generated content and any other content on your site.
Why haven't any of my URLs been submitted for indexing yet?
Byword processes indexing requests on a daily schedule. If you’ve just set up automatic indexing, please allow 24 hours for the first batch of URLs to be submitted. If no URLs have been submitted after 24 hours, check that:
Your service account has Owner permissions in Search Console