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Re: indexing web pages

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François Patte, 2025-03-28 19:15:

> Just to be sure : is it possible to index a web site without opening an 
> account (google account for instance or bing, or ...)

Google stopped their anonymous "Ping" service to submit sitemaps:

<https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping>

However having a Google Account and using the Search Console at
<https://search.google.com/search-console/> is much easier anyway -
because then you can not only submit your website to get added to the
index of Google but you also see if there are any errors or pages which
do not get indexed and can fix these problems. You will also see a
stastic, how many pages got listed in search requests and how many
people clicked on results linking to your website and so on.

The same applies to Bing - they also require you have an account:

<https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/url-submission-62f2860b>

And the reason is the same as Google: they don't want to get spammed
with thousands of useless phishing or spam URLs - that's why they ask
people to create an account first.

-- 
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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indexing web pages François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> - 2025-03-28 19:15 +0100
  Re: indexing web pages Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-29 08:20 -0700
  Re: indexing web pages Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-03-31 10:49 +0200

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