Add your site and verify it

Why it matters

Adding your site is the first step to every automatic feature in IndexPedia: weekly or daily checks, IndexNow submissions, Google data and AI crawler tracking. It takes about three minutes.

You prove the site is yours by uploading one small text file, the same file IndexNow uses to trust your submissions. Nothing else on your site changes.

Before you start

• A free IndexPedia account
• Access to upload a file to your site's main folder: a hosting file manager, FTP, or your CMS
• Your sitemap address, if it is not at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

Step by step

1. 1

   Create a free account

   Sign up with your email. One site is free.

   Start free
2. 2

   Add your site

   Type your domain. The sitemap address fills in by itself.

   Dashboard›Add site
3. 3

   Download the key file

   Each site gets a small text file named after its key.

   Your site›Download
4. 4

   Upload it to your site's main folder

   It must open at yoursite.com/yourkey.txt.

   cPanel›File Manager›public_html›Upload
5. 5

   Press Verify

   Your first scan starts right away.

   Your site›Verify now

If something goes wrong

Verify says the file was not found

Open yoursite.com/yourkey.txt in a browser. If it does not show the key, the file is in the wrong folder; it must be in the same folder as your homepage, usually public_html.

My sitemap was not found

Check the address in your robots.txt or your SEO plugin settings, and enter it on the site settings page. Sitemap index files are fine.

The file downloads instead of opening

That is fine as long as the address works. Search engines only need to read its contents.

What to do next

Once verified, the first run starts straight away. Open your site's dashboard to see the first results, then connect Search Console and add the tracking snippet for the full picture.