What Google did with a brand new site in its first 24 hours
We put a new site online with no backlinks, no audience and no history. Sixteen pages, a sitemap, and a Google Search Console property connected the same afternoon. Then we recorded what Google said about every page, the first morning and the next. That record is the only reason this article exists. Search Console answers the question for today and keeps nothing, so the day-one state of a site is…
In Google's inaugural 24 hours, a brand new site was launched with no backlinks, audience or history. The site contained sixteen pages, a sitemap and a Google Search Console property. Throughout the day, Google's observations on each page were meticulously recorded. On the first afternoon, all pages were unknown to Google. By the next morning, thirteen out of sixteen pages were indexed.
The key insight is that a site with no incoming links could be indexed quickly, without any paid service or trickery. Partway through the first afternoon, the team utilized Google's Request Indexing feature on nine of the pages, but the subsequent results did not confirm the feature's effectiveness. The team observed that three pages were indexed without any Request Indexing requests, suggesting that the button's impact is uncertain.
It is important to note that this experiment involved only one site on one day, and the results may not apply universally. The team acknowledges that further testing with larger sample sizes is necessary to draw more definitive conclusions about the use of Request Indexing.
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