Hey founders.
I've been trying to figure out why my new web pages don't get indexed by Google and realized that Google is lazy by default and won't index your web pages as soon as you publish them.
For my new domains, it often would take weeks or months.
Some pages weren't indexed even after many months.
I looked around and found many tools to fix this issue. But all those tools had monthly recurring subscriptions.
I'm a huge fan of the "once" movement. When you pay once for a tool and use it forever for SAAS tools with no internal costs.
So first I made a little tool internally, just to save money, since I had 30 websites and lots of pages.
Later I decided to publish this tool to be used by the rest of the community.
It's been live for months, we helped to index over 100k pages to our users.
Now I wanna present it to a wider audience.
Right now the tool is simple, it does the whole job really well, it sends the email reports, it shows the status charts.
The next steps:
- add many more features around page indexing such as: checking for 404 pages, checking for SEO issues on pages, and a lot more.
- add an AI assistant that will evaluate the data found by indexrusher and either do the action or recommend the action if it cannot perform it itself
- other stuff that I come up with later or users recommend me
If you have questions, ask me here or DM on X https://twitter.com/johnrushx
@johnrushx Hey, the product looks great!
BTW, do you have plans or ideas about expanding to large-scale websites? I am launching a few with approx 30k - 500k pages on each.
@maxbalaban thx max.
Yeah, I increase the limits slowly. To make sure my servers won’t collapse.
Just added new tier for 10k pages.
Gonna add 100k pages tier in March and then 1M pages in April
@johnrushx Congrats on the launch John.
As a paying customer I can say that IndexRusher solves a real problem and is straightforward to use.
I was going to ask about broken link detection feature. So good to hear that it's on the roadmap. Looking forward!
Congratulations @johnrushx on the launch, John! 🚀 Your initiative to tackle the challenge of getting web pages indexed efficiently is commendable. It's inspiring to see how you've developed a solution that not only saves money but also benefits the community. Looking forward to seeing Indexrusher grow and evolve with even more features and enhancements! 💪🔍
@david_sipos it's just more convenient and saves you time if you have many pages.
It also submits updated pages. Again you can do it manually, but time is money, so I built this tool to save my time so that I can spend it on more creative tasks .
@johnrushx I am literally all for purely time-saving tools that let robots do work for us. That said, same question as @david_sipos … if we've already done things the hard way for recent launches, does your tool add anything?
I love this whole ethos (the "once" movement, the build for yourself, the share with the world, the monetize what you can, etc.). Good on ya!
Mayn website owners have had this problem, that Index Rusher solves. Index Rusher is a product that helps you get your website indexed by Google faster. It is a useful tool for webmasters, bloggers, SEO experts, and anyone who wants to improve their Google search ranking and site rank. 📢
The "alerts for 404 pages" feature is CRUCIAL for SEO. 404 pages directly impact user experience. When users encounter 404 errors, it disrupts their browsing experience, potentially leading them to leave the site. This increases the bounce rate, which search engines interpret as a sign of poor site quality. No 404 = better SEO. I think it is the most important feature IndexRusher offers.
Hey John, congrats on the launch! It's a great concept. I had a lot of questions but found almost all the answers on your landing page, very cool.
I only have one more question, how do you adress security? I can't use any tool that isn't approved by the CTO of my company and I couldn't find any data about this. Thanks! And good lick with the rest of the day
@stephanie_cameron hey.
we use google service accounts to perform the work.
it accesses the google search console.
it's not much harm that can be done there.
but to be honest, we're not corporate level compliant. I mean we do it like startups. We don't have a dedicated security team.
You can also turn it on, run it and then turn it off and remove the access. This way it's more secure
Hey @johnrushx — we have a super-simple personal website builder, https://getrealnice.com, that helps folks make clean little personal websites. We've struggled with the problem of how to submit them to Google when they get published. Google usually gets around to indexing them, but not as fast as anyone would like.
Is Index Rusher something we might use?
ps: my site — https://aaroncohn.com — is a good example of what most of them look like.
@aaron_cohn hey Aaron.
If you wanna auto submit the websites built on your website builder, every customer of yours would have to run indexrusher individually for their website once it's connected to a custom domain.
there is no option to automate it for all websites, since they all use different domains.
but personal sites usually have only few pages, so the owners can simply do this manually.
Add their site to Google Search Console and manually add the sitemap. This will at least index their home page. If that's the only page they have, then the job is done. Free.
@johnrushx thx for the reply! totally fair. SEO is a weird problem for us — most of our customers are SUPER non-technical so they can't really use Google Search Console. And we were just fingers crossed that there might be a way for us to submit sites to Google in bulk for indexing without us technically being the owners of them. If you have any ideas on that front, we're all ears.
Beyond that, love the once movement and glad to have another member of the club!
@aaron_cohn for websites with one page, the best way to bulk index it is this: setup pages which link to those websites from high authority domain.
Add every new customer website there and submit these pages (the page with all the links) to google every time you add a new link there (here you could actually use index rusher for this to happen automatically).
This will pretty much solve the problem.
Google will reindex that page with all the links (if you have 1000 customers, better split these on 10-50 pages, to have max 50 links per page or less).
After reindexing, google will navgiate to those links and most likely index those domains too.
So, the problem solved.
Always here to support your launches, John. ndexRusher would definitely come in handy for large websites or sites with programmatically generated pages.
Hey John, huge congrats on the IndexRusher launch!
This is seriously awesome – getting Google to index pages faster is a major win for SEO. Plus, I'm a big fan of your content on X.
Can't wait to see what other features you've got up your sleeve.
Amazing work!
@chenx552 hey, the product is a product itself.
I mean it's not a "service", it's a product that does the work. You sign up, turn it on and it just magically does the work by calling google apis
@jaaneek I give discounts sometimes, these are the possible cases
- you're from a country with lower purchasing power
- you're just starting out as an indie maker
- you're pre revenue
let me know if you fall into these, and I'll see what discount I can provide.
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