<b>Spamming Request Indexing is not a crawl strategy. It's a placebo</b>
The URL Inspection "Request Indexing" button feels like a direct line to Googlebot, so people hammer it for every new page and every minor edit. It's a nudge, not a command, and over-using it does nothing extra.
Google has said outright: requesting indexing repeatedly for the same URL doesn't move it up any queue or improve its odds. The page enters the same evaluation everything else does. If it's low quality, the button won't save it; if it's good and linked, it would've been crawled anyway.
The button's real job is a one-time poke for a genuinely new or significantly updated page so you don't wait on natural discovery. Past that, it's busywork that feels productive.
The button asks Google to look. It doesn't make Google care.
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<b>Spamming Request Indexing is not a crawl strategy. It's a placebo</b>
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