How to submit URLs to Google and verify indexing
Submitting a URL is not the same as getting it indexed. SEO Scanner helps you inspect technical obstacles before checking Google's index status in Search Console. For ordinary articles, product pages and service pages, use a sitemap and URL Inspection. The Indexing API is restricted to eligible job posting and livestream pages.
Check your site's technical SEO →Start with the reason Google excludes the page
Run a scan and check the final HTTP status, robots directives, canonical URL and internal links. A successful HTTP response alone does not prove indexability. A canonical pointing elsewhere can consolidate the page into another URL, while noindex explicitly asks search engines to exclude it.
Then inspect the exact URL in Search Console. Compare the last crawl, Google's selected canonical and the reported exclusion reason. The live test checks the current page; it does not prove that the page is already in the index.
Use a sitemap for normal website pages
Include canonical, public pages you want indexed in your XML sitemap. Link to them from relevant pages and submit the sitemap in Search Console. Keep modification dates accurate; changing a date without changing the content does not make it new.
For a small number of important updated pages, use URL Inspection's request-indexing action where available. For larger changes, maintain the sitemap and internal links. Neither route guarantees a crawl schedule, indexing or ranking.
What the Indexing API actually supports
Google limits this API to pages with JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in VideoObject. It is not an alternative bulk submission route for blog posts, ecommerce products or ordinary landing pages. See Google's official Indexing API requirements.
For eligible pages, SEO Scanner provides URL selection and notification workflows after account and Google connection setup. Google Cloud approval, permissions and quotas apply. An HTTP 200 confirms a notification response, not inclusion in Google's index. Notification history is not index-status history.
Measure the outcome, not just the submission
Record the technical change and compare Search Console page status after a later crawl. Track search impressions and queries separately from indexing. An indexed page with no impressions needs a relevance and content review; repeating submission requests does not solve that problem. SEO Scanner's technical score is not a Google ranking score.