Submit a site or URL for crawl, which you don't own?

Heylo!

New to the forum but I've been writing scripts and apps for SEO purposes a decent amount of time.

As title suggests, if there's a way to submit a site for crawl (then subsequent indexing) then I don't know it yet - it seems to exist though as it's the foundation of tools like omegaindexer.com

Google Indexing API requires site ownership verification
Google Search Console URL Inspection tool requires site access
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url is retired
Google submit sitemap tool requires site access

Any of you boffins got another idea I could explore ?

Both sitemap and API follow a 301 in my tests. Give that a shot

You can try modifying the sitemap file before submitting.

REF: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/best-way-to-index-web2-0-posts.833161/#post-8785199

Video sitemap doesn't really work anymore but you can do it with regular one as well.

LunarDev said:

Heylo!

New to the forum but I've been writing scripts and apps for SEO purposes a decent amount of time.

As title suggests, if there's a way to submit a site for crawl (then subsequent indexing) then I don't know it yet - it seems to exist though as it's the foundation of tools like omegaindexer.com

Google Indexing API requires site ownership verification
Google Search Console URL Inspection tool requires site access
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url is retired
Google submit sitemap tool requires site access

Any of you boffins got another idea I could explore ?

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I imagine that the few people who still know how to do it on this date will surely keep it to themselves. I imagine a lot of indexing services are dead lately.

LunarDev said:

Heylo!

New to the forum but I've been writing scripts and apps for SEO purposes a decent amount of time.

As title suggests, if there's a way to submit a site for crawl (then subsequent indexing) then I don't know it yet - it seems to exist though as it's the foundation of tools like omegaindexer.com

Google Indexing API requires site ownership verification
Google Search Console URL Inspection tool requires site access
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url is retired
Google submit sitemap tool requires site access

Any of you boffins got another idea I could explore ?

Click to expand...

the only thing that works on my side, is sharing on social media accounts.

tiiberius said:

You can try modifying the sitemap file before submitting.

REF: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/best-way-to-index-web2-0-posts.833161/#post-8785199

Video sitemap doesn't really work anymore but you can do it with regular one as well.

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tried video sitemap 2 weeks ago. what used to work before does not work anymore. i think google has patched this.

jamie3000 said:

Both sitemap and API follow a 301 in my tests. Give that a shot

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Wow, that's a hot tip I'll be sure to test through he API then report back in.

Thanks for sharing an useful post

@jamie3000 Thanks for the tip!

Test method:
Using Indexing API
Have an arbitrary url on a property you own through GSC, e.g. `example.com/going-to-301-redirect-anyway`
Have a 301 redirect in place on the site you own `Redirect 301 example.com/going-to-301-redirect-anyway another-domain.com/page-1`
Submit indexing request for `example.com/going-to-301-redirect-anyway`
Wait

Test results
Submitted 7 URLs this way on the 7th of December
As of 8th of December 0 URLs have appeared on http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/
As of 8th December 1 URL has indexed on google / google's site: search