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Auto-Indexing 30 Sites with IndexNow and Google Indexing API

DEV Community·AstroworldMC·17 days ago
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The problem I run a small constellation of sites — a main brand site, a few content-heavy reference databases for Minecraft (mobs, biomes, items, enchantments, structures), a hosting page, a status page, a few tool pages. 29 deployed sites total, plus one main domain. Every time I push new pages, Google takes a week to discover them through the sitemap, and Bing takes longer. For pages that target time-sensitive search terms, that's a real cost. I wrote a small service called Indexing-Astroworld that solves two problems: Detect new and changed URLs across all 30 sites every 6 hours Submit them to IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam) and Google Indexing API the moment they exist It runs on the same VPS as the rest of the stack. It's about 400 lines of TypeScript. This post is what I actually built and a few things I learned along the way. IndexNow vs Google Indexing API These are not the same thing. People mix them up constantly. IndexNow is a simple HTTP POST protocol.…

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