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		ris58h on June 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google no longer automatically indexes websites? > If you want to be indexed, submit your pages to Google explicitly through a GA tag, a Google Search Console account, and a sitemap. What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site? I have a GitHub pages site with a very unique topic and it's still not indexed by Google (the site is available at least for 8 month now). I've checked Bing and my site is on the 4-th place on the results page.

ahstilde on June 5, 2023 | [–]

> What if I don't want to put any Google-related stuff on my site?

Then you're choosing to make it harder to be platformed by Google.

Regardless, a GSC account and submitting a sitemap do not require you to serve any Google-related "stuff".

dawnerd on June 5, 2023 | [–]

Use a sitemap, that’s not google specific at all.

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