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      <title>I was tired of waiting weeks for Google to index my new blog posts</title>
      <dc:creator>Amir Ali</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/amirali_03d990bb/i-was-tired-of-waiting-weeks-for-google-to-index-my-new-blog-posts-282o</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I was tired of waiting weeks for Google to index my new blog posts&lt;br&gt;
When I launched a brand new website, I ran into a problem that I think a lot of people quietly deal with.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I was publishing blog posts, doing the usual SEO work, and still watching pages sit there unindexed for far too long. Some pages showed up quickly. Others disappeared into that frustrating gray zone where Google had discovered them, but not actually indexed them.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is a bad feeling when you are trying to build momentum.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So I stopped relying only on the usual advice and tested a different approach.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I built an indexing workflow that sends direct URL notifications when a post goes live. Instead of waiting around for search engines to eventually find the page, the script reads my sitemap and pushes the URL through the indexing pipeline automatically.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The difference was noticeable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Pages that had been sitting unindexed started getting picked up much faster, and in my test run the newly added pages were indexed within about 15 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That was the moment the whole process clicked for me.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This was not about trying to hack SEO.&lt;br&gt;
It was about removing unnecessary delay.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When a site is new, crawl discovery can be slow. When you publish content regularly, that delay adds up. And when you are working on content that actually matters, waiting weeks just to get seen feels outdated.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What I liked about this approach was that it still respected the basics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The site still needed:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;good content&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;clean internal linking&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;solid structure&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;proper technical setup&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;pages worth indexing in the first place&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The automation simply helped Google notice the content faster.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That is the part I think people miss.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Indexing is not the same thing as ranking.&lt;br&gt;
But if Google cannot index the page, ranking is not even part of the conversation yet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So for me, this became less of a trick and more of a publishing system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I now treat indexing as part of the workflow, not something I hope happens later.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are building on a new domain and your pages are taking too long to appear in search, it may be worth looking at your indexing process, not just your content.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I wrote the full breakdown here:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.clienvora.com/2026/06/google-indexing-api-index-any-page-in.html" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://www.clienvora.com/2026/06/google-indexing-api-index-any-page-in.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>marketing</category>
      <category>automation</category>
      <category>python</category>
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      <title>Starting My Journey with Marketing and AI</title>
      <dc:creator>Amir Ali</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/amirali_03d990bb/starting-my-journey-with-marketing-and-ai-3mb5</link>
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Hello everyone, I’m Amir. I spend most of my time exploring how marketing strategies and SEO are changing as AI becomes part of the way we discover content. I started &lt;a href="https://www.clienvora.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Clienvora&lt;/a&gt; (B2B Content Marketing Agency) as a place to test ideas and share what I learn, and now I want to bring those experiments here too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I believe growth is not just about numbers, it’s about stories and the way we connect ideas across platforms. My posts will be about experiments in content promotion, SEO frameworks, and the small lessons that come from trying new things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One recent insight I found interesting is how republishing a blog on Medium and answering related questions on Quora can help AI models notice your site faster. It feels like a reminder that visibility today is about being present in many conversations at once.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I’m excited to share more of these experiments with you and to learn from the experiences of others in this community. If you’ve tried something unusual in marketing or SEO, I’d love to hear about it.&lt;/p&gt;

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