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    From =?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Patte?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 28 19:15:16 2025
    Bonjour,

    Just to be sure : is it possible to index a web site without opening an
    account (google account for instance or bing, or ...)

    Thank you.

    F.P.

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  • From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 29 08:20:46 2025
    XPost: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design

    On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:15:16 +0100, François Patte
    wrote:

    Just to be sure : is it possible to index a web site without opening an account (google account for instance or bing, or ...)

    Followups to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design
    (You're not asking a question about HTML.)

    By "index", do you mean add to search engines,
    especially Google? If no other sites link to yours, how
    will any search engine know that your site exists? A
    new site should register with Google if it wants people
    to find it in search results.

    It's a good idea to establish a Google account anyway;
    it gives you a lot of options for managing how Google
    interacts with your site, and you also get information
    about what people are searching for when the results
    include your site.

    You need not stay logged in to Google all the time, if
    you're concerned about privacy for instance. Until a
    year or so ago, I logged in only when doing site
    maintenance that interfaced with Google, then
    immediately logged out again.


    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA
    https://BrownMath.com/

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 31 10:49:16 2025
    François Patte, 2025-03-28 19:15:

    Just to be sure : is it possible to index a web site without opening an account (google account for instance or bing, or ...)

    Google stopped their anonymous "Ping" service to submit sitemaps:

    <https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping>

    However having a Google Account and using the Search Console at <https://search.google.com/search-console/> is much easier anyway -
    because then you can not only submit your website to get added to the
    index of Google but you also see if there are any errors or pages which
    do not get indexed and can fix these problems. You will also see a
    stastic, how many pages got listed in search requests and how many
    people clicked on results linking to your website and so on.

    The same applies to Bing - they also require you have an account:

    <https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/url-submission-62f2860b>

    And the reason is the same as Google: they don't want to get spammed
    with thousands of useless phishing or spam URLs - that's why they ask
    people to create an account first.

    --
    Arno Welzel
    https://arnowelzel.de

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