Indexing of 80,000 pages in Google

[daniel1213]

Hello, I am calling on your experience to give me the best possible advice.

I have a website with about 84,000+ pages. This is new and I would like to index as many pages as possible. How would you proceed in my case? Here are the 2 options:

Option 1:
I use the Wordpress platform, I use the posts on DRAFT with autopublish every 15 minutes, and each publication uses the INDEXNOW plugin, which sends signals to Google via the Google API and at the same time via the API to BING?

Option 2: I publish all the pages at once and wait...

Obviously, I make as many external backlinks as possible, and for the internal pages I have intelly-related-posts that generate 3 internal links in the article, a few paragraphs apart. The xml sitemap is also active. I also use Yoast SEO, and every page is "Good". I am open to other suggestions. Thank you!

[not2easy]

If you're using Yoast you should not need a separate plugin for indexing. It might help if you visit the Yoast site and read about the how and why of using it. They offer in-depth explanations of how WP works best, and what strategies help different goals. Never add more plugins than you need.

[Juniya]

With the latest Google indexing issues, I thought option #1 would probably the best. Publishing all those posts at once, your website might mistakenly send a signal to Google's wobbly Ai/system/spam brain or whatever they call it, that your website is producing spam.

84K pages is a lot of pages and content regardless of the topic.

Publishing them from time to time might be for the best and you have to remember you have a crawling budget with Google and Bing too(I assume?) so that is why if I had to choose, option 1 seems the most practical right now.

[daniel1213]

Thank you!

[tangor]

That's a lot of pages! At 1 every 15 minutes it will only take 875 days to get 'em all out there. Whew!

MEANWHILE, if this content has clear sections/categories, one can release a few thousand at a time (with accompanying sitemap if you chose to use one). New sites pop up all the time, some with that many urls or more, and eventually enter the g ecosystem.

OTOH, g is not really indexing like it used to---one of the problems that comes along with the being the biggest, most used search engine.

WORSE, g has changed what really qualifies as entries in its serps. All kind of obstacles are placed in the way and there's not a lot one can do about it.

[edited by: not2easy at 11:40 am (utc) on Mar 27, 2024]

[McMohan]

I wouldn't publish all the pages at once, neither have a set time interval between a tranche of pages.

I would divide pages into broad topics and then sub-topics. Release the pages belonging to a topic and then pages in its sub-topics. Let Google process the pages. After an interval of a few weeks, release the pages of next topic and its sub-topics and repeat. You release them in silos. Like Netflix series and seasons. Give Google time to process your pages and identify your topical expertise and reinforce it with batch of pages after intervals.

You will need massive external link strength, pointed to homepage and pillar pages.

Good luck!

[daniel1213]

Thank you!