(Entry was posted by Hege Jacobse on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/20/2022).

Do I need a plugin to make sure my pages are indexed?

So, my blog has been active for a little over a year and has quite a bit of content, some (increasing) traffic, and I have some articles on page 1 on google. My content seems locatable for searches. But, just checked my indexing and it appears that my URLs are not indexed with google? Checked it here: https://search.google.com/search-console/inspect. Yesterday, I submitted all the pages of my blog, and "requested indexing". Now what? It seems I wait. Do I re-check again in the Google search console, in a day or two? What will this URL indexing change for me? Do I need a plugin to make sure my pages and posts are indexed correctly/regularly..? Any insight, link to "how-to" or super-easy explanation will be highly appreciated. Thanx!!

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Neil Cheesman: THIS - one thing contradicts the otherI have some articles on page 1 on google. My content seems locatable for searches. But, just checked my indexing and it appears that my URLs are not indexed with Google?

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Michael Martinez: I usually wait about a week before checking again.

You might want to look at the Crawl Stats report and see if they are finding any issues there. It can also give you a rough idea of how long it may take for them to recrawl your site, although there is no way to compute and accurate bow-to-stern latency for the entire site (that is, how long it takes them to fetch every URL at least once).

You might be able to compute such a latency if you have access to server log file data. You would need at least a month`s worth of fetch requests.

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Hege Jacobsen: Ok, thank you very much!

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