:INFO How to Get Your Link-in-Bio Page Indexed by Google in a Week You've shared your bio link for months. You type your own name into Google and... nothing. The page just isn't there. That's not a bug. Google doesn't index a page because it exists, it indexes a page because it was told to crawl it and found nothing blocking the door. So learning how to get your link in bio indexed by Google comes down to two jobs: ask for the crawl, then clear the obstacles. Most pages land within a week. :CHECKLIST The week-long fix [ ] Ask for the crawl in Search Console [ ] Make sure Googlebot can actually read the page [ ] Give Google something worth keeping :INFO [links:https://search.google.com/search-console] Ask for the crawl in Search Console Open Google Search Console and add your bio page as a URL prefix property. If your link sits on a builder's subdomain you don't fully own, verifying the exact URL is enough for now. To verify, a DNS TXT record is the sturdiest option, but an HTML meta tag in the page head works if you can edit it. Once you're in, drop your full bio URL into the inspection bar at the top of the screen and hit Request Indexing. That's the lever. It puts you in a priority queue, and I've watched pages get picked up in 24 to 72 hours from a single request. Click it once. Mashing the button daily does nothing except annoy you. :INFO [links:https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing] Make sure Googlebot can actually read the page A crawl request is useless if the crawler hits a wall. Two checks catch most of them. Type yoursite.com/robots.txt into your browser. See "Disallow: /" sitting under "User-agent: *"? That one line blocks the entire site. Delete it or scope it down. Then view the page source (right-click, View Source) and search for noindex. A single keeps you out of search permanently, no matter how often you request indexing. Squarespace and a few free-tier builders ship this tag on by default, so don't assume it's clean. Run URL Inspection again: "URL is not on Google" plus a green "URL can be indexed" means you're cleared and just waiting. "Excluded by noindex tag" means go pull the tag. :QUOTE [quotetype:personal] Getting indexed and ranking are different sports. :INFO [links:https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide] Give Google something worth keeping A page with one line and twelve buttons gets indexed and then ignored. Write a real title (John Cole, ceramics studio in Leeds), a two-sentence intro, and link to the page from your Instagram, your newsletter footer, anywhere, so Google finds a trail in. This is where a structured page beats a raw link list. A Slatesource slate gives each chip its own readable text, title, and description, so the crawler arrives to actual content instead of a wall of links. More to read means a better shot the next time someone searches your name. :NOTE Go deeper: everything above, straight from Google's own documentation. | :LINK.half https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080 Verify Your Site Ownership | :LINK.half https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289 URL Inspection Tool Guide | :LINK.half https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro Intro to robots.txt | :LINK.half https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing Block Indexing With noindex