141 is the magic number to getting indexed on Google
141: That's the magic number for getting indexed on Google.
I've been writing blog posts on our domain for a month now and most of them haven't been indexed.
This /wrapped page was put up only few weeks ago and it's now showing up in Search Results.
Reverse engineering this it's pretty obvious to see that I shared /wrapped a lot more in communities and people viewed it.
141 people in fact. Other pages not so much. Barely any direct page views.
This means that distributing your blog post as an early startup is the best way to get it indexed.
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Hi Sukh, This is interesting. SEO, crawl and indexing are a blackbox to many of us so I will not refute your observation.
However, I have 2 strategies that have helped me get my pages indexed by Google that have nothing to do with this 141 magic number:
I noticed that any time I was posting a blog between 2k-3k words, it was getting indexed a lot quicker than pages with less content. So I decided to do a content refresh on 3 unindexed blogs and increased their word count from under 1k to 2k+
I used a free trial of an indexing tool which which allowed me to enter the URLs of these 3 blogs and select the search engines that I want to ping.
Within 2 days, the posts were indexed with much less than 141 visitors to the blog posts at that moment.
Totally fair. It probably depends on a lot of variables like age etc. Your experience sounds valid. Our domain is very new (6 months) with 2 pages up until a month ago. I wrote 20 blog posts in the last month that I was trying to get indexed. This trick worked for me.
Curious, what is your domain. Would love to learn how you're approaching writing blog content.
Curious - Did you submit to GSC for priority indexing? Didn't see that mentioned here, sorry if I missed it.
Hey Esus, you know what's funny. I did a while ago and nothing happened so I was like well this doesn't work, gotta find something else. Somebody else suggested doing the same last Friday and I did it over the weekend. Guess what - all pages got indexed immediately!
Amazing to hear! That kind of happened to me once, so I started using a tool to automatically submit my pages for priority indexing just in case I miss them haha. Glad it worked out.