Lesson 5 of 1414 minAdvanced

Speed of indexation

Internal linking for breaking stories

Homepage and section-front placement plus links from related live coverage accelerate discovery more than any ping.

Why this lesson matters

This lesson belongs to Speed of indexation, the part of News & Publisher SEO where the goal is: get found within minutes, not hours.

Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankAudit. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.

Do it now

  1. 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
  2. 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
  3. 3Measure publish-to-index time for five recent articles and note the slowest step.