How to get your pages indexed faster for AI search

Open Search Console for your property, paste the exact URL into the URL Inspection bar at the top, wait for the result, then click Request Indexing. That puts the URL into a priority crawl queue instead of leaving it to be found on the next routine pass.

This one carries weight beyond classic search: Gemini grounding leans on Google's index, so a page Google has not crawled is a page Gemini cannot ground an answer on. If you do not have Search Console set up for the domain yet, do that first. Verification is a one time task.

In Bing Webmaster Tools, use URL Submission and paste the same URL. Bing gives every verified site a submission quota, so you can push a batch of changed URLs at once rather than one at a time.

This matters far more than most people expect. ChatGPT search, Copilot, and Perplexity all lean on Bing's index, which means Bing coverage drives three of the surfaces you care about while getting a fraction of the attention Google gets. If setup feels like a chore, note that Bing lets you import your Search Console profile, so you can carry your verification and site list across instead of re-verifying by hand.

IndexNow is a ping protocol. Instead of waiting for a crawler to come back and notice a change, you tell the search engines directly that a specific URL changed. Bing and Yandex consume it, and participating engines share submissions with each other.

It works in two parts. First you host a key file at your domain root: a plain text file whose name and contents are both the key you generated, at https://yoursite.com/<key>.txt. That file is how the engine confirms you control the domain. Then you ping the API with the URLs that changed.

POST https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "host": "yoursite.com",
  "key": "your-generated-key",
  "keyLocation": "https://yoursite.com/your-generated-key.txt",
  "urlList": [
    "https://yoursite.com/the-page-you-changed",
    "https://yoursite.com/another-changed-page"
  ]
}

A single URL can also go through as a plain HTTPS GET:

GET https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=https://yoursite.com/the-page-you-changed&key=your-generated-key

Before you write any of that, check your platform. Shopify, Wix, Cloudflare, and Duda all ship an IndexNow setting that is a single toggle, and once it is on, every publish pings automatically. Use the toggle if you have one.

A sitemap is the list of URLs you want crawled, and the line in robots.txt is how a crawler finds that list without being told where to look. Add one line to yoursite.com/robots.txt:

Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

This is the mechanism by which a crawler discovers pages nothing links to yet. Without it, discovery depends entirely on a crawler happening to follow a link into the page. With it, the full inventory of your site is one fetch away, and a fresh lastmod date on an entry is a signal that something changed.

Atvelo checks for a reachable sitemap and the robots.txt reference, and will flag it as a recommendation if either is missing.

Submission gets a page looked at. Links are what make a crawler keep coming back. Put a link to the new page in your main navigation, on your homepage, or inside an existing page that already gets traffic and already gets crawled often.

An orphan page, meaning one that nothing on your site links to, gets discovered slowly no matter how many times you submit it, and gets recrawled even more slowly after that. One internal link from a page the crawler already visits regularly does more for ongoing freshness than repeated manual submissions.

All of the above is wasted if your robots.txt turns the engines away at the door. Open yoursite.com/robots.txt and look for disallow rules aimed at these user agents:

• GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT
• ClaudeBot, Claude
• PerplexityBot, Perplexity
• Google-Extended, Gemini

These blocks are often not deliberate. They arrive by default in a platform template, or get added during a bot traffic cleanup and never revisited. A blanket Disallow: / under any of those agents means your content does not exist as far as that engine is concerned, however good it is.

Atvelo fetches your robots.txt on every scan and flags any of these agents being blocked, so you find out the same day it happens rather than wondering why a fix never landed.

You do not have to track any of this by hand. We re-check your site and re-run your question set on every scan, and when the engines stop flagging a recommendation, we move it to Verified on your dashboard. Your pooled score moves deliberately after that, partially at first and firming up as more scans agree, which is the same stability guarantee that keeps a single lucky answer from reading as progress. See the methodology for how that pooling works.