What you can request, engine by engine
| Engine | How | From your assistant |
|---|---|---|
| URL Inspection, then Request Indexing in the Search Console web interface | Inspect only (gsc_inspect_url). mowteng cannot request indexing in Google. | |
| Bing | Submit URLs in Bing Webmaster Tools, or use IndexNow | bing_submit_urls: up to 500 URLs, within the site's daily quota, which depends on its age and traffic |
| Yandex | Recrawl request in Yandex Webmaster, or IndexNow | yandex_submit_urls: up to 100 URLs, within the daily recrawl quota |
| Bing, Yandex and others | IndexNow | indexnow_submit: one call reaches every participating engine |
Google does not take part in IndexNow, and mowteng has no tool that requests indexing in Google. For Google, inspect the URL with mowteng, then press Request Indexing in Search Console yourself.
Ask Google by hand
- In Search Console, paste the full URL into the inspection bar at the top.
- Read the result. If the page is not on Google, or the version Google has is outdated, use Request Indexing.
- Wait. Google queues the request and may need days. Repeating it does not speed anything up.
Google limits how many requests you can make per day, so keep them for pages that matter: new pages, and pages whose content changed in a way you want shown. Everything else is better served by a good sitemap.
Do the checking and the rest from your assistant
gsc_inspect_url returns Google's index status, the last crawl, the canonical and rich results for one URL. It uses the property's URL Inspection quota of 2,000 per day. After you have asked Bing, Yandex and the IndexNow engines, inspect again a few days later to see whether Google has picked the page up on its own.
I just published https://example.com/blog/new-post. Inspect it in Google, then submit it to Bing, Yandex and IndexNow.
Bing, Yandex and IndexNow submissions are write actions, so your assistant should ask before sending them. IndexNow needs a key file on your site first; see set up IndexNow.
A request is not a promise
No engine guarantees indexing after a request. If a page is crawled but stays out, the reason is usually content or quality, not crawling. Discovered and crawled, currently not indexed explains that status, and auditing which pages are not indexed finds the pattern across a whole site.