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How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines

By Clioos 团队

There is no single submit button that puts your website into every search engine, and anyone selling one is overselling. Google has no bulk submission API for general pages at all — its Indexing API only covers job-posting and broadcast pages — and IndexNow is not a route to Google: it notifies Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and other participating engines. The honest submission path is therefore three separate moves: put your sitemap in Google Search Console, push new URLs through IndexNow to the engines that accept it, and check progress yourself in Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. No step here guarantees indexing — indexing is always the search engine's decision.

At a glance

Google does not accept IndexNow submissions, and it has no bulk submission API for general pages. Any guide that says otherwise is wrong.
Google's own path is: verify your site in Search Console, submit your sitemap there, and use URL Inspection to request indexing page by page.
IndexNow pushes go to Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and other participating engines — not Google — and a push receipt only proves the push, not indexing.
IndexRocket's free checker handles up to 50 URLs at once with no signup, and its indexation label is a rough estimate, never a verdict — only Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools can confirm indexing.
IndexRocket's paid push costs 1 credit per URL (one-time packs $9/100, $29/500, $79/2000; points never expire) and refunds the credit automatically if the push itself fails.

Steps

Start with the free check, no signup: open https://indexrocket.clioos.com/checker (also linked as Free checker on the IndexRocket home page), paste up to 50 URLs one per line, and run it. You get reachability (a real live fetch: reachable plus HTTP status) and a rough indexation estimate per URL. Read the estimate label literally — it is a heuristic, not a verdict, and it never proves a page is or is not indexed.
Do the Google side yourself in Google Search Console: verify ownership of your site, submit your sitemap URL (Sitemaps section), then for your most important new pages use URL Inspection and Request indexing, one page at a time. There is no bulk submit-to-Google button to press, and no tool can press one on your behalf for general pages.
Push the same new URLs through IndexNow to the engines that accept it: on IndexRocket, paste up to 500 URLs on the submit flow (1 credit per URL; free accounts start with 10 credits on signup, paid packs are one-time $9/100, $29/500, $79/2000 with points that never expire). Each URL comes back with a submission receipt — when it was pushed and what IndexNow answered. If the push itself fails, the credit is refunded automatically.
Wait, then verify in the source of truth: check the same URLs in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Indexing takes days to weeks and is decided by each engine; a successful IndexNow receipt means the engine was notified, nothing more. If a page is still not indexed after weeks, fix the page (thin content, noindex tags, crawl blocks, duplicate content) rather than re-pushing the same URL repeatedly.
Keep the three records separate in your notes: the free-checker estimate (rough, for triage), the IndexNow receipt (proof of push), and the Search Console / Bing result (the only confirmation of indexing). Conflating them is how false guaranteed-indexing claims are born.

Worked example (tested 2 November 2026)

Method, disclosed in full: the free checker was run as a real unauthenticated POST to the live endpoint, exactly as a reader would use it — POST https://indexrocket.clioos.com/api/checker with two of our own URLs, no signup, no account. No paid IndexNow push was run in this draft (that needs a signed-in account and credits), and no Search Console submission was performed (that needs the site owner's own account), so this guide claims no push receipt and no indexing result of its own — it reports the checker run and gives the steps.

Checked URL	Live checker result
https://clioos.com/guides/pdf/how-to-convert-pdf-to-excel.html	ok: true; reachable: true; httpStatus: 200; indexed: true — with simulated: true and the note: Estimate only: this URL appears indexed, based on a rough heuristic — not a verdict. Only Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools can confirm indexation.
https://indexrocket.clioos.com/	ok: true; reachable: true; httpStatus: 200; indexed: true — same estimate wording, simulated: true.

The important field is simulated: true. It means the indexed value is the checker's deterministic heuristic estimate, not a lookup in Google's index — and the response says so itself. A reader who copies indexed: true into a report as proof of indexing would be misreading the tool. The real, verifiable facts in this run are reachable: true and httpStatus: 200 — the pages exist and answer. Everything about indexing still has to be confirmed in Search Console.

What it can't do

No guaranteed indexing, from anyone: indexing is Google's and Bing's decision. IndexRocket says this on its own home page, and this guide repeats it: a push is a notification, not an admission ticket.
IndexNow does not reach Google: IndexNow notifies Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and other participating engines. Google is not a participant, and there is no legitimate way to re-route an IndexNow push to Google. A tool that lists Google among its IndexNow destinations is mislabelling the sitemap hint as a submission.
The free checker cannot confirm indexing: there is no public, credential-free API that answers whether an arbitrary URL is in Google's index. The checker gives reachability (real) plus a heuristic estimate (labelled as such). Only Search Console's URL Inspection and Bing Webmaster Tools, connected to your own verified site, can confirm.
Pushing does not fix a bad page: thin content, a noindex tag, a robots block, or heavy duplication will keep a page unindexed no matter how many times it is pushed. Fix the page first, then push once.
Repeated pushing is not a strategy: re-pushing the same unchanged URL does not increase its chances. Push on publish or on real update, then wait and verify.
Google's Indexing API is not a general shortcut: it only accepts job-posting and broadcast (livestream) pages. Using it for ordinary pages is outside its scope and will not work as a bulk submission channel.

The three channels, kept separate

Google: Search Console sitemap submission + URL Inspection requests. No bulk API, no IndexNow. Confirmation lives in Search Console.
IndexNow engines (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, others): push new or updated URLs, keep the receipt (push time + IndexNow's answer). A receipt proves notification, not indexing. Confirmation lives in Bing Webmaster Tools.
Free triage (IndexRocket checker): up to 50 URLs, no signup, reachability plus a rough estimate. Use it to find dead links and prioritise, never as proof of indexing.

Submit sitemap to Google

The short version of how to submit sitemap to google: verify ownership of your site in Google Search Console, open the Sitemaps section, paste your sitemap URL, and submit. Then use URL Inspection to request indexing for your most important pages one by one — there is no bulk request button. Keep the sitemap URL stable; if it moves, submit the new one and remove the old.

Frequently asked questions

Can I submit my website to Google with IndexNow?

No. Google does not participate in IndexNow, and it has no bulk submission API for general pages. For Google, submit your sitemap in Search Console and request indexing page by page in URL Inspection.

Does IndexRocket guarantee my pages will get indexed?

No — and neither can anyone else. Indexing is the search engine's decision. What IndexRocket sells is the push itself, with a submission receipt per URL, and an automatic credit refund if the push itself fails.

What does the free checker actually tell me?

Reachability (a real live fetch: whether the URL answers, and its HTTP status) plus a rough indexation estimate per URL, labelled as an estimate in every surface. It cannot confirm indexing — only Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools can.

How much does pushing URLs cost?

1 credit per URL. Free accounts start with 10 credits on signup; one-time packs are $9 for 100, $29 for 500 and $79 for 2,000 credits, and points never expire. A failed push refunds its credit automatically.

How long until a submitted page is indexed?

Days to weeks, and sometimes never, depending on the page and the engine. A push only notifies the engine faster; it does not force crawling or indexing. Verify in Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools rather than re-pushing.