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Samet AKIN
3.3 (3 reviews)
Fast Index for Google Indexing API
Notify the Google Indexing API when you publish, update or delete posts. Google officially supports the API for job and livestream pages.
Fast Index for Google Indexing API ranks #10,716 among WordPress.org plugins with 300+ active installations, is #484 of 4,265 in the SEO & Marketing category, a 3.3/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated Oct 16, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v3.0.1
Current Version v3.0.1
Updated 3 weeks ago
Last Update on 16 Oct, 2026
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#484 of 4,265 in SEO & Marketing
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- Version
- 3.0.1
- Last Updated
- Oct 16, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.6+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.4
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Samet AKIN
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TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for WordPress site owners who want their content indexed by Google. It solves the problem of slow or missing Google indexing by using the Google Indexing API to send URLs when content is published, edited, or deleted.
- Instant indexing on publish, edit, delete
- Works with Google Indexing API
- Real-time and instant indexing
- Increases visibility in Google
- Send old posts and pages
- Exclude categories from indexing
- Faster than sitemaps
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Fast Index for Google Indexing API
Only the address (URL) of a post and the kind of notification: URL_UPDATED when a post is published or changed, URL_DELETED when it is removed. Titles, content, visitors and your database are not sent. To prove who is asking, Fast Index also sends a signed request that contains the email address and key ID of your service account; the private key itself never leaves your site. The requests go to oauth2.googleapis.com and indexing.googleapis.com. If IndexNow is turned on, the same addresses, the host name of your site and the IndexNow key also go to api.indexnow.org. Your own History keeps the title, address and each answer in your database. See also Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
No, and Fast Index cannot promise it. Google says: "The Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject." For other pages, such as ordinary posts or products, Google may accept the notification and answer 200, but its documentation does not promise that the page will be crawled or indexed, or that this happens sooner. A 200 only means that, in Google's words, it "may try to recrawl this URL soon". Google also checks every submission for spam and may revoke access for abuse. Keep your sitemap and Search Console as they are. Details: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/using-api
Fast Index looks at the saved content of each post for structured data of the types JobPosting or BroadcastEvent (JSON-LD or microdata), and at the job listings of WP Job Manager, without any outside request. History marks such entries with Eligible for Google Indexing API. If you check Send to Google only pages with JobPosting or BroadcastEvent data in the settings, only those pages go to Google; the others still go to IndexNow when it is on. Data that a theme or another plugin adds only when the page is shown, and not in the saved content, is not seen; developers can add it with the fast_index_is_eligible filter.
Fast Index sends published content of the post types checked in the settings; drafts, pending and private posts are not sent. Every public post type of the site can be checked: Posts (checked by default), Pages, and custom post types such as products or job listings. Media attachments are not offered.
If Trash is checked in the settings, a published post that is moved to the trash, or deleted without the trash, is reported as URL_DELETED with the address it had before. Deleting it later from the trash sends nothing more. Changing a published post to draft or private is not reported. Google asks that the address returns 404 or 410, or carries a noindex tag, when you send a removal.
Yes. In the list of posts, pages or another post type that Fast Index sends, hover over a published item and click Notify search engines, or select up to 100 items, choose Notify search engines under Bulk actions and click Apply. Fast Index sends them to Google right away, and to IndexNow when it is on, and shows the result on the same screen; History lists each answer. You need permission to edit each item and the items of other users, as Editors and Administrators have, and Status must be Active. Password-protected items are not sent. Every address counts against Google's daily quota.
Yes. Set a daily limit under Daily Limit for Old Posts. Every hour Fast Index sends a small random batch of published posts that Google has not accepted yet, newest first, until the daily limit is reached. The limit counts all successful notifications of the last 24 hours. Send Old Posts Now runs one batch immediately, and History shows how many posts are still waiting. Keep the limit within Google's daily quota. This setting is part of the premium plan, a separate package.
Google's default is 200 publish requests per day for each Google Cloud project; notifications of both kinds, updated and removed, count. Google says larger usage needs its approval and that quota may increase or decrease based on document quality. Fast Index does not know your quota in advance: when Google answers 429 it pauses every key until the quota resets at midnight Pacific Time, and the notifications that could not be sent wait until then. Quota page: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quota-pricing
With the premium plan you can upload backup keys. Fast Index always sends with the main key, the first one in the list. Only when Google rejects it (401 or 403, or the key is refused) is that key paused for six hours and the next key tried. A 429 answer means the daily quota is used up: every key is then paused until the quota resets at midnight Pacific Time, and no other key is tried. Other errors (such as 400, 5xx or no answer) end the attempt without pausing a key. Google counts quota for each project, not for each key, and writes that attempts to abuse the API, including the use of multiple accounts or other means to exceed usage quotas, may result in access being revoked: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart Ask Google for more quota if you need it.
The key is kept in your WordPress database (an option that is not loaded on every request). It is never written to the uploads folder or any other file, and the screens show only the email address and key ID. Because the service account is an Owner of your Search Console property, treat the key like a password. If it may have leaked, delete the key in Google Cloud and remove the service account from the users of your Search Console property.
