martinharry339,
welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]. This is going to be longer than a simple answer, because, in truth, there is no simple answer... and crystal balls aren't working well this year. ;)
In the past few days, there's been an overview of what's been going on with Google indexing, in two articles in Search Engine Roundtable...
Google Suspends Request Indexing Feature While It Has Indexing Issues Oct 15, 2020 - by Barry Schwartz [
seroundtable.com...]
Note this comment from Google in the Oct 15 article, with my emphasis added:
We have disabled the "Request Indexing" feature of the URL Inspection Tool, in order to make some infrastructure changes. We expect it will return in the coming weeks. We continue to find & index content through our regular methods...
About those "regular methods", there's a link to a Google Developers article, which IMO it's important to read. Briefly, for now, I would guess that, at the state you've described elsewhere your site is in, this shouldn't be delaying you at all. Submitting, IMO, is not going get you into the index any faster than some prudent link-building would. You've got to make efforts to integrate your site into the web, develop your content and get some "freely given editiorial inks", which will get it spidered. And that will all take a while. There's no real shortcut, unless you get a link from the NYT.
Barry's other article, which quotes WebmasterWorld's Updates thread... sets up what Google's been doing all month, and asks whether it's an update or indexing fix, or both...
Is There A Google Search Ranking Update Or More Indexing Issues & Fixes? Oct 14, 2020 - by Barry Schwartz [
seroundtable.com...]
IMO, this is all a continuation of the evolution of the indexing tool, and I hope to have more to come on that, but for now the above, with all of the references that Barry links to, should get you started reading, and I hope a discussion started here...
