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Search Engine Indexing

How search engines discover and index pages on new sites, including per-page indexing behaviour and lagging page types.

Current stories

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A two-week Page Indexing stall costs June its comparable trend line

Search industry outlets logged Search Console's Page Indexing report frozen from around June 11. Google's reported position is that the data was delayed in processing and will not be backfilled, so URL-level checks are what is left.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives72
Confidence38
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A friend's device is the only control in this ChatGPT citation experiment

Suman Debnath ran a week-long answer-engine pass, watched ChatGPT name him two days later, and then spent most of the write-up arguing that the sequence is not a cause. The cross-device check and the three silent assistants are why that argument holds.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption12
Hype gap−18
Incentives62
Confidence46