API indexing Google with WordPress: how to connect it all in 2 minutes

In this article, I’m going to teach you exactly how to index your content on Google faster using the Google API. We will do this through an Instant Indexing plug-in and other things that I will list in a very short time. This guide is built for WordPress but you can use it on other CMSs as well, only the last part of the tutorial will change.

This API insertion process is a bit complex, but when it comes to your website’s content ranking and SEO it’s good to spend some time on it because it will only help you in the future.

You have two options or watch this video below made by me where I show you the whole process, or read the next few paragraphs.

What is Instant Indexing
Instant indexing is precisely the instantaneous indexing of content that is done by having the website communicate directly with the APIs that will immediately pass it to the search console (you can find a guide on the search console here if you need to better understand how it works).

Basically between the search console and the site there will be a third party (the APIs) communicating the updates that happened on wordpress directly to Google.

Why what and how will instant indexing help?
Most importantly, instant indexing indexes and ranks content faster.
Because it uses Google’s search indexing API to submit content directly to the search engine, this makes your content visible on the SERP faster than traditional Sitemap submission. Especially important for content where the time factor matters a great deal, such as news updates or topical blogs

What will we need to make the link?

We will need four things:

1.Google Cloud Platform
2.Search Console
3.Rank Math SEO
4.Instant Indexing (a plugin we’ll see in a moment)

How to connect Google APIs for instant indexing to WordPress.
Well let’s start to see how to do it.

1.Now click on My First project at the top
2.Then click on new project and enter the name of your site or project. You could also leave the location blank.
3.Now select it from the top and enter the project.
4.Let’s go to the menu on the left and then to “APIs and Services” after that “Library” and in the search field type in “Indexing APIs,” select it and click on Enable, you will get the related screen.
5.Click on “Credentials” and then “Create Credentials” Service account.
6.Give it a name to your liking and also a description so you can remember it “Example Instant Index Service”
7.Assign it the owner role
8.The system will recognize an email for you, copy it
9.Go to Search Console and at the bottom left go to Settings
10.Now go to Users and Authorization and click “Add User.”
11.Paste the previously copied email and give it “Owner” authorization, give add
12.Go back to Google Cloud Platform and click on the 3 dots on the email and then on “Manage Keys” (See picture below)

13. Add key
14. Create new Key and select Json and click create. It will download a json file for you
    Well now let’s go inside wordpress, we are almost done
15. Install Rank Math SEO if you haven’t installed it yet and go through the whole installation procedure to configure it

16. Install Instant indexing, the plugin (see image above) or download it from here

Instant Indexing for Google

Activate it

17. Open the plugin will be in the rank math menu in the “Instant Indexing” section
18. Go to the “Google Api Setting” section and load the Json in by doing browse. Alternatively to make it cleaner you can open with notepad or notepad the file and copy the contents of the json to paste it there in the specific text field.
19. Now in the Submit section decide what to bring in with the API (e.g. Articles, pages etc etc), then make save changes.
20. You are done now everything will work, but if you want to give it a try, take an article that has not been indexed yet and put it in the field in the console tab and give Send to Api, if it comes out “Success” everything will have gone well.

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