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by xnx 713 days ago
Do not use this tool. Google representative John Mueller says this: "Like the documentation has stated for a long time, the Indexing API has a very limited set of use-cases that's supported. It's great to see passionate people try to do more with it, but a) it's often for spam & low-quality, and b) it's not supported."

https://x.com/JohnMu/status/1759517693248450902

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Nice find. One tweet says this, hadn't seen this sort of data point before:

>Well 1) the site lost the index after he started using the api - the spam redirects worked before that :) 2) it is quite clear that API has to be used for jobs and videos 3) I have tested this with multiple domains and always after 3-9 months you get killed.