Articles Not Getting Indexed On Daily Basis

[Silong]

I have a site with 150+ articles and its google news approved. I have a number or articles which are targeting fairly competitive keywords with very high volume of traffic. These articles have got ranked in top 10 and top 20 already. The problem is, these articles need daily updates with content and despite updating the same these articles don't get re-indexed quickly. Sometimes it takes two weeks to get re-indexed with the altered content (despite of updating the pages daily, in some cases every three to four hours) whereas all my competitors alter the content as it is the demand of the content. I see some of my competitor's pages get re-indexed quickly, some are facing the same issue as that of mine.
What I have noticed is that this happens almost invariably with the articles which are targeting very high traffic keywords. The articles which aren't targeting very high volume traffic when I update them, those get indexed within few hours maximum within a day.
Is there any fix to this? There shouldn't be any reason why Google Will not re-index an already indexed page which receives high volume of traffic when I update it.

 

[GenesisOne]

Hard to tell about G this days.
Be grateful if your links are indexed even if you have to wait a bit.
Just be patient.

 

[tazarbm]

do you have a sitemap submitted to your GSC? If no, you need to have one. If you do have one, check the settings and see how often it is set to ping google. I think most sitemaps are set to ping new / updated posts every 24 hours, so you might want to decrease this number (if the plugin that created the sitemap allows for this).

Other than this, I don't know what else you could do as (re)indexing is very hard nowadays. Maybe try google API (whatever this is, I don't know)?

 

[davidelzs]

We recommend Rankmath instant indexing plugin. It fetches to google index, once you published the blog. Fully automated.

 

[LinkJar]

When you publish a new blog post, site page, or website in general, there are many factors that determine how quickly it will be indexed by Google.

Google allocates a crawl budget and crawl time for every website. If you are publishing posts randomly after days or months, it may take a few days before search engine bots decide to crawl your website again. This is one of the primary reasons for your posts not being indexed.

If your site or page is new, it might not be in index because they haven't had a chance to crawl or index it yet. It takes some time after you post a new page before they crawl it, and more time after that to index it.

 

[Silong]

We recommend Rankmath instant indexing plugin. It fetches to google index, once you published the blog. Fully automated.

I tried it about two weeks back. Followed all the steps, created a Google API account, had given access to GSC and it seemed not to work with the said set of articles. Can you explain any reason why it didn't work?

 

[Silong]

When you publish a new blog post, site page, or website in general, there are many factors that determine how quickly it will be indexed by Google.

Google allocates a crawl budget and crawl time for every website. If you are publishing posts randomly after days or months, it may take a few days before search engine bots decide to crawl your website again. This is one of the primary reasons for your posts not being indexed.

If your site or page is new, it might not be in index because they haven't had a chance to crawl or index it yet. It takes some time after you post a new page before they crawl it, and more time after that to index it.

Thanks for your reply. My new articles normally get indexed within five to ten minutes as I have google news approval. The problem is specifically about re-indexing of most viewed pages.

 

[Silong]

do you have a sitemap submitted to your GSC? If no, you need to have one. If you do have one, check the settings and see how often it is set to ping google. I think most sitemaps are set to ping new / updated posts every 24 hours, so you might want to decrease this number (if the plugin that created the sitemap allows for this).

Other than this, I don't know what else you could do as (re)indexing is very hard nowadays. Maybe try google API (whatever this is, I don't know)?

I definitely have GSC enabled and my sitemap is managed by RankMath. I have even tried submitting the URLs in "URL Inspection" after updating the pages but no luck! The older version remains indexed. These articles get good traffic in comparison to other pages in my site but still takes too much time for getting re-indexed.