How to Use the Bulk URL Indexing Submitter Tool (Complete Guide)
If you've ever published an important page and then watched it sit unindexed for weeks, you know how frustrating the wait can be. Google's standard crawl queue is shared across billions of pages, and there's no guarantee when your content will get picked up — especially on newer or lower-authority domains.
The Bulk URL Indexing Submitter Tool solves this by letting you submit URLs directly to the Google Indexing API in bulk — bypassing the passive crawl queue entirely. It works entirely inside your browser, handles the authentication process for you, and gives you real-time feedback on what's been submitted and what's pending. Here's how to use it from start to finish.
Why the Google Indexing API Matters for SEO
Search engines decide how often to crawl your site based on a "crawl budget" — a rough allocation of how many of your pages they'll visit in a given window. For large sites with thousands of URLs, or for new sites that haven't built much authority yet, this means many pages can stay invisible in search results for a long time after publishing.
The Google Indexing API is a direct line that bypasses all of that. Instead of waiting for Googlebot to discover your page on its own schedule, you send a request that tells Google a specific URL is ready to be crawled now. It was originally built for job posting and livestream structured data, but in practice it works for any page — and website owners have been using it to speed up indexing for years.
The catch is that interacting with this API normally requires setting up a Google Cloud project, handling OAuth tokens, and writing or managing code. This tool removes all of that complexity and handles it for you, securely, without leaving your browser.
To use the API, you upload your Google Cloud service account JSON file — the file that contains the private key for your project. The tool reads this file locally and generates a signed authentication token inside your browser. That token is sent to Google's OAuth servers to get an access key. Your private key file never leaves your device and is never stored anywhere by the tool.
How the Tool Works — Step by Step
The tool takes you from a bare website URL all the way through to confirmed API submissions in a single workflow. Here's exactly what happens at each stage:
Enter your website URL as it's registered in Google Search Console. The tool checks your robots.txt file for sitemap references and also checks common default locations like /sitemap.xml and /sitemap_index.xml. You can also paste sitemap URLs manually if yours are in a non-standard location.
Once sitemaps are found, the tool parses each one and pulls out all URLs along with any available metadata — last modified date, change frequency, and priority values. If your sitemap is a sitemap index (a file that links to other sitemaps), the tool follows those nested files recursively until it has collected everything.
With your full URL list loaded, you can search, filter by pattern, or use include/exclude rules to narrow down exactly which URLs you want to submit. This is important — Google gives you 200 API requests per day, so you want to focus on pages that actually need to be indexed, not tag pages or filters that you'd rather keep out of search results anyway.
Managing Your Daily API Quota Wisely
Google's standard Indexing API quota is 200 requests per day. That sounds like a lot, but if you're managing a large site or running a full re-index campaign, it adds up quickly. Submitting URLs that are already indexed just wastes quota you could have spent on new or updated pages.
The tool has an optional pre-check feature that uses the URL Inspection API to verify whether a page is already indexed before submitting it. If a URL is already in Google's index, the tool skips it automatically and moves on. This way your daily 200 requests go only toward pages that actually need attention — new posts, recently updated content, or pages that got missed in a previous crawl cycle.
| Request Type | What It Does | When to Use It |
|---|---|---|
| URL_UPDATED | Tells Google a page is new or has been updated and should be crawled. | After publishing new content, or after making significant changes to an existing page. |
| URL_DELETED | Requests that Google remove a URL from its index. | When you delete pages, redirect them, or clean up thin/duplicate content you don't want ranking. |
| Status Pre-Check | Queries the URL Inspection API to see if a page is already indexed. | Run this before any batch submission to avoid wasting quota on already-indexed URLs. |
Submitting in Batches Without Getting Rate-Limited
Sending too many API requests at once will get you rate-limited — Google will return 429 errors and your submissions will fail. The tool handles this by letting you configure two things before you submit: batch size (how many URLs per request, from 1 to 25) and delay between batches (from 0.5 seconds up to 5 seconds).
For most situations, a batch size of 10 with a 1–2 second delay between groups works reliably without hitting rate limits. If you're submitting a very large list across multiple sessions, the conservative setting of 5 URLs per batch with a 2-second delay keeps things safe. While the submission runs, a live progress tracker shows you exactly how many URLs have been submitted, how many succeeded, how many failed, and how much of your daily quota you've used.
Exporting Results and Tracking What You Submitted
Once a submission batch finishes, the tool displays a full results log showing which URLs succeeded and which ones returned errors. Any failed URLs can be retried on their own — you don't have to re-run the whole list. This is useful when a small number of URLs hit a temporary API error that clears on the next attempt.
You can export your results as a JSON file (useful if you want to integrate the data with other developer tools) or as a CSV file that you can open directly in Excel or Google Sheets. Keeping these export logs is good practice — cross-referencing them against your traffic data over the following days lets you see exactly which submitted pages started getting impressions and clicks, and how quickly Google acted on your requests.
Who Should Use This Tool
This tool is most useful if you publish content regularly and want to make sure new posts get into Google's index quickly, if you've just done a large site restructure and need to push hundreds of updated URLs at once, or if you manage multiple websites and want a free alternative to paid indexing services that require you to hand over your API credentials to a third party.
Because everything runs locally in your browser — no accounts, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine — it's also a good fit for anyone who's wary of giving external tools access to their Google Cloud projects. Your service account key stays with you the entire time.