Are Medium and Blogger hard to get indexed by Google?

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I’ve been publishing industrial equipment technical articles on Blogger and Medium for about 2 months (over 20 posts in total), but Google is barely indexing them. Only 1 page shows up in site: search, and most article titles don’t appear in Google at all.

I’ve already checked indexing settings and everything is set to allow search engines.

Is this normal for a new site (Google “sandbox” or trust delay), or do Blogger/Medium have indexing limitations for new accounts or this type of content? How long does it usually take to normalize?
 
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alec5 said:
I’ve been publishing industrial equipment technical articles on Blogger and Medium for about 2 months (over 20 posts in total), but Google is barely indexing them. Only 1 page shows up in site: search, and most article titles don’t appear in Google at all.

I’ve already checked indexing settings and everything is set to allow search engines.

Is this normal for a new site (Google “sandbox” or trust delay), or do Blogger/Medium have indexing limitations for new accounts or this type of content? How long does it usually take to normalize?
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I know Medium takes a long time to index, but with blogger, I think if you submit your site to GSC, it'll get indexed faster. Treat it like your normal site.
 
I think Medium and blogger are not hard to index google usually picks then up quickly since both are high authority platforms. Use proper titles, meta descriptions, and sitemaps to help Google discover your posts faster.
 
from what I've seen blogger and medium themselves aren't hard to index the bigger issue is that new accounts with little authority can take a few months before google crawls them consistently especially in niche B2B topics
 
HenryObi said:
I know Medium takes a long time to index, but with blogger, I think if you submit your site to GSC, it'll get indexed faster. Treat it like your normal site.
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kenai. said:
from what I've seen blogger and medium themselves aren't hard to index the bigger issue is that new accounts with little authority can take a few months before google crawls them consistently especially in niche B2B topics
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Clickboostpro said:
I think Medium and blogger are not hard to index google usually picks then up quickly since both are high authority platforms. Use proper titles, meta descriptions, and sitemaps to help Google discover your posts faster.
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Thank you, everyone.
 
Don't know much about Blogger. But I'm sure indexing speed heavily depends on the author's account on Medium. Some established users get their posts indexed instantly , while newer or low-trust accounts might literally never get indexed at all.
I doubt it's a content quality issue on Google's end.Maybe it's the follower count, CTR, dwell time, or whatever stuff that decides whether it gets indexed.
 
For blogger I found that I'd get crawled but not indexed so I go back and add more content and request indexing again.

Usually works for me.
 
brodey said:
medium/blogger don’t have indexing issues by default—if only 1 page is indexed it’s usually quality duplication or internal discovery signals being too weak not a platform limit
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I see, thanks. So what should I focus on first to fix this issue?

Ambiguiltor said:
Don't know much about Blogger. But I'm sure indexing speed heavily depends on the author's account on Medium. Some established users get their posts indexed instantly , while newer or low-trust accounts might literally never get indexed at all.
I doubt it's a content quality issue on Google's end.Maybe it's the follower count, CTR, dwell time, or whatever stuff that decides whether it gets indexed.
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Yeah, that sounds possible. So basically new accounts just need to build some trust first?
 
Vynith said:
For blogger I found that I'd get crawled but not indexed so I go back and add more content and request indexing again.

Usually works for me.
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Are you talking about Blogger or Medium?

UL Agency said:
Pretty normal for a new site/account. It can take a few weeks or even months for Google to trust and index more pages, so I'd focus on consistent, original content and give it some time.
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Okay, thanks. Do you think I should still do one post per day?
 
for me it depends. I just send them through an indexer, if i create them as backlinks for my website. they get indexed in 3-5 days.
 
alonelywriter said:
for me it depends. I just send them through an indexer, if i create them as backlinks for my website. they get indexed in 3-5 days.
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Is there any tool available?
 
Medium and blogger are not ideal for serious seo. they're fine for personal blogs. if you're serious about getting that content indexed, you should look into a custom-built static site or a lightweight cms or using wordpress. way more control, way better performance, and google will pick it up faster
 
Waiting can take a few months, especially for industrial topics. Share your posts on social media or get a few backlinks to speed it up. Also you can use Google Search Console to manually request indexing for each post. but you can only do a few per day.

You also need to check your keyword difficulty. If page one is all big industry sites, your new posts won't rank. Try writing case studies or troubleshooting guides. That kind of stuff gets indexed faster.
 
Blogger is easier in my opinion. Articles get indexed quickly but receive little search traffic if competition is high.
 
Medium and Blogger usually get indexed fine. If only a few pages are indexed after 2 months I'd look at content quality, uniqueness and internal linking first.
 
blogger and medium definitely take time now. double check your content quality to make sure it isn't duplicate or just pure ai slop. if the content is solid and still not indexing, build strong backlinks or indexers.
 
Yes, both medium and blogger have become more difficult to index, albeit for different reasons, the days when you could publish and google would index your content in minutes are long gone, on medium, the problem is that they now apply do not index tags to new or inactive accounts, to get approved, your content has to be original, moderately long, and pass their internal filters, the advantage is that when you manage to do so, it gets indexed very quickly due to the domain's authority.

The case of blogger is sadder because it's owned by google, but they've neglected it, for some time now, they've started deindexing blogs without much explanation, technical problems abound, and if you use blogger, having a custom domain helps a bit in getting taken seriously, you also have to review your privacy settings, upload your sitemap to search console, and above all, ensure the quality of your content because if it's too short or seems like it was generated by artificial intelligence, you'll be excluded from the index.

Ultimately, the difficulty isn't just in the platform itself, but in how you use it, haphazardly publishing generic content no longer works anywhere, what I see working is using these platforms as a complement to your own website, not as the foundation of your business, the hybrid model is the most successful way to ensure long term visibility without depending on the fluctuations of a single platform.
 
for technical B2B stuff google is super picky now. if you are using the default blogspot subdomain you are going to struggle to get indexed at all tbh. google just doesnt give crawl budget to fresh free subdomains anymore. same with medium, they shadow-noindex new accounts to fight spam. if you want to keep using those platforms you need to force them... either use a decent indexer or set up the google indexing api. but honestly you are better off buying a cheap domain with some age and setting up a simple wordpress site. 2 months is way too long to wait for 20 articles to show up.
 
Rikachu said:
Yes, both medium and blogger have become more difficult to index, albeit for different reasons, the days when you could publish and google would index your content in minutes are long gone, on medium, the problem is that they now apply do not index tags to new or inactive accounts, to get approved, your content has to be original, moderately long, and pass their internal filters, the advantage is that when you manage to do so, it gets indexed very quickly due to the domain's authority.

The case of blogger is sadder because it's owned by google, but they've neglected it, for some time now, they've started deindexing blogs without much explanation, technical problems abound, and if you use blogger, having a custom domain helps a bit in getting taken seriously, you also have to review your privacy settings, upload your sitemap to search console, and above all, ensure the quality of your content because if it's too short or seems like it was generated by artificial intelligence, you'll be excluded from the index.

Ultimately, the difficulty isn't just in the platform itself, but in how you use it, haphazardly publishing generic content no longer works anywhere, what I see working is using these platforms as a complement to your own website, not as the foundation of your business, the hybrid model is the most successful way to ensure long term visibility without depending on the fluctuations of a single platform.
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That makes sense. I also suspect it's because the account is still in the "sandbox" phase; I registered less than two months ago.
 
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