Indexing Insight works by maximising the usage limits of the URL Inspection API.
The tool works in three stages:
Project settings
Maximise API usage limits
Automated daily Google index monitoring
Stage 1: Project settings
Indexing Insight needs three settings to start monitoring your important pages.
When you add a new project, you tell us what important pages you want to monitor by adding these settings:
Domain property: The domain property (website) you want to monitor.
XML Sitemaps: Select sitemaps that contain the pages you want to monitor.
Web properties: Add web properties for subdirectory URLs you wish to monitor.
Learn more about how to set up a monitoring project.
Stage 2: Maximise usage limits
These three settings help maximise the usage limits for URL Inspection API.
Our tool starts downloading the URLs from the selected sitemaps and mapping them to the web properties in your Google Search Console account.
The web properties for each subdirectory created allow us to maximise the URL Inspection API limit and fetch more data daily.
For example, if you just used the homepage web property, it would take 12 days to inspect all the pages on the test website.
Web Property | URLs | Daily limit | Inspection Cycle |
10,500 | 2,000 | 6 days |
However, if you map the pages to the subdirectories and create web properties in Google Search Console, you can maximise the API usage limits. And reduce the time it takes to fetch pages.
So now it only takes 3 days to fetch all the data, instead of 6 days.
Also, the secondary benefit is that you can now monitor your category pages in 1 day, instead of 3 days. Fetching your important pages even faster.
Web Property | URLs | Daily limit | Inspection Cycle |
1 | 2,000 | 1 day | |
1,800 | 2,000 | 1 day | |
1,500 | 2,000 | 1 day | |
1,200 | 2,000 | 1 day | |
6,000 | 2,000 | 3 days |
Learn more about web property settings and inspection cycle.
Stage 3: Automated daily Google index monitoring
Finally, we monitor Google indexing for all your important pages daily.
Indexing insight monitors your XML sitemaps, web properties and important pages to monitor Google indexing at scale. The whole process is entirely automated.
The result is a Google index monitoring tool that helps you monitor the indexing states of your most important pages. And allows you to segment, filter and download your indexing data.
We even send you a daily email alert so you can check when things change. And you don’t have to spend any time in the app (unless you need to).
That's it! That is how Indexing Insight works.
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