instant indexing for your Blogger posts using the Google API

 

To achieve instant indexing for your Blogger posts using the Google API, you can follow these steps:

1.    Obtain a Google API key:

·         Go to the Google Cloud Console (https://console.cloud.google.com/).

·         Create a new project or select an existing one.

·         Enable the "Custom Search JSON API" and "URL Inspection Tool API" in the API Library.

·         Go to the "Credentials" page and create a new API key.

2.    Configure your Blogger settings:

·         Log in to your Blogger account (https://www.blogger.com/).

·         Go to the "Settings" of your blog.

·         Click on "Search preferences."

·         Enable "Custom robots.txt" and enter the following code:

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User-agent: *

Sitemap: YOUR_BLOG_URL/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Replace YOUR_BLOG_URL with your actual blog URL.

3.    Install and configure the Google API Python client library:

·         Install the Google API Python client library by running the following command in your command line:

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pip install google-api-python-client

·         Create a Python script and import the necessary modules:

python

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from googleapiclient.discovery import build

import requests

4.    Write the code to submit URL for indexing:

·         In your Python script, add the following code to submit a URL for indexing:

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def index_url(api_key, url):

    service = build("indexing", "v3", developerKey=api_key)

    request = service.urlNotifications().publish(

        body={"url": url, "type": "URL_UPDATED"}

    )

    response = request.execute()

    return response

 

if __name__ == "__main__":

    api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

    url = "URL_OF_YOUR_BLOG_POST"

    response = index_url(api_key, url)

    print(response)

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the API key you obtained in step 1, and URL_OF_YOUR_BLOG_POST with the URL of the specific blog post you want to index.

5.    Run the Python script:

·         Save the Python script and run it. Make sure you have Python installed on your system.

·         The script will send a request to the Google API to index the specified URL.

·         The API will return a response indicating the status of the indexing request.

By following these steps, you should be able to index your Blogger posts using the Google API and achieve near-instant indexing for your blog content. Please note that instant indexing may still take a few minutes to propagate across the Google search results.