Indexing API vs just pinging your sitemap. Most of you are overcomplicating it.

Indexing API vs just pinging your sitemap. Most of you are overcomplicating it.
People rig the Google Indexing API for blog posts. It's officially for job postings and livestreams — works for the rest, against ToS, and Google can ignore or penalize the abuse.
When it's worth the risk: genuinely time-sensitive pages on a slow-crawl site, low volume, you accept the gray-hat.
What actually works for 95%: a clean sitemap that auto-updates on publish, submitted in GSC, plus ONE internal link from a frequently-crawled page (your homepage or a hub). That's the real indexing accelerator nobody talks about.
Link your new post from a hub on day one. That beats any API hack.