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Get your site indexed by Google

2026-07-01

If your website isn't showing up on Google, it's almost always one thing: Google hasn't indexed it yet. A page can be perfectly built and still be invisible in search until Google has crawled it and added it to its index. The fix is to tell Google your pages exist — submit your sitemap, then request indexing for the pages that matter most.

You can do this by hand in Google Search Console (steps below), or — if you already work with an AI coding agent like Claude Code or Cursor — you can have it do the clicking for you, right in your own browser, on ThinkRun. This page is both: the how-to, and an installable skill.

Why isn't my site on Google?

Almost always one of these:

  • It's new or was never submitted. Google hasn't discovered it. Submitting a sitemap fixes this.
  • It's discovered but not crawled yet. Search Console shows "Discovered — currently not indexed." Requesting indexing nudges it up the queue.
  • It's blocked. robots.txt disallows crawling, a noindex tag is set, or the page returns an error. Check these first — no amount of submitting will index a blocked page.

Reachable is not the same as indexed. A crawlable page can still take days to a few weeks to appear for a brand-new site.

How to submit your sitemap to Google (by hand)

  1. Confirm your sitemap loads: visit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml — it should list your URLs. Most site builders (WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow) generate one automatically.
  2. Open Google Search Console and select (or add + verify) your site.
  3. Go to Sitemaps, paste https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml, and click Submit. Success shows a green confirmation and, within minutes, Status: Success with a discovered-pages count.
  4. For a few high-priority pages, use URL Inspection → paste the URL → Request Indexing (there's a ~10/day limit; the sitemap already covers the rest).

That's it. Then check back over the next days with a site:yourdomain.com search to see pages appear.

…have your coding agent do it, on ThinkRun

Clicking through Search Console every time you publish is repetitive, login-gated busywork. If you already work with an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex), this skill lets it handle the flow for you — running on ThinkRun, which gives your agent a real browser (yours, already logged in) and records every step it takes.

Two things that matter here:

  • Your login stays yours. It runs in your own browser session — nothing hands your Google account to a third-party SaaS — and it works even though Search Console has no proper "submit my sitemap" API.
  • You get a recording of what happened. Because it runs on ThinkRun, the whole run is captured as a replayable recording — a repro/audit trail you (or your agent) can review, not a black-box script.

The flow: check that your sitemap and robots are healthy, submit the sitemap, request indexing for your priority pages, and report back with a site: coverage check. You stay in control — you complete the Google sign-in yourself (nothing should type your password for you), then hand off the clicking.

That's the honest part, and why it runs on a real browser rather than a scraper: some steps in Search Console resist automation (the URL-inspection bar only accepts a real keypress; sign-in is human-only). The skill documents exactly what it does and where you step in, so it never pretends to do more than it can.

One skill, a bigger idea

Getting indexed is a good first example of what ThinkRun is for: giving your coding agent a real, logged-in browser to work in — and a recording of everything it did. The same foundation covers the web tools that have no API — dashboards, admin panels, ad platforms. More skills extend the library from here.

Install

Download the two files and drop them into your agent's skills directory (for Claude Code: .claude/skills/google-search-console/):

So the layout is .claude/skills/google-search-console/SKILL.md and .claude/skills/google-search-console/scripts/submit-sitemap.js. Then just ask your agent to "submit my sitemap to Google", "request indexing", or "why isn't my site on Google?"

Prerequisite: this skill drives ThinkRun, so your agent needs it installed first — the Chrome extension (Search Console needs your real, logged-in Google session, so this one always runs in local mode). Full setup: docs.

What about Bing?

The same flow works in Bing Webmaster Tools. For hands-off, no-login submission to Bing and Yandex, IndexNow lets you POST changed URLs directly — no browser required once a key is set up.