Most indexing advice is written for Google. My site is Korean, so I also had to deal with Naver and Daum, and a few things behaved differently from what I expected. These are notes from doing it by hand, not a recipe.
Naver Search Advisor
- Sitemaps and RSS feeds can be registered once. Submitting the same one again returns an "already registered" message, so a sitemap is not a way to announce a single new page.
- For one new page, the "web page collection" request under the Request menu is the tool. You paste a URL and submit; the request shows up in a list afterwards.
- I send a request right after each new page goes live, rather than batching them later.
Daum Webmaster Tools
- Login needs the site URL plus a PIN code you issue yourself. The session expired on me after a while, so it is not a login you can rely on staying open.
- Each URL goes through a collection request with a confirmation popup. It is manual, one URL at a time.
Google Search Console
- The sitemap is read automatically. For individual pages I keep a queue and request indexing in small daily batches by hand, because the Indexing API is meant for job postings and livestreams, not general pages.
What I cannot say yet
I have no data showing that these requests speed anything up. A page that appears in a search engine later might have appeared anyway. I am logging the date of each request and the date the page first shows up, and I will compare after a few weeks.
If you have run a Korean site, I would like to know whether you see a difference between Naver and Daum collection times.
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Top comments (2)
Logging the request date against the first-appearance date is the right instinct, and I like that you are saying plainly it may have appeared anyway. To separate the effect from the noise, leave a few comparable pages unrequested as a control and compare median time-to-appear between the two groups. Even 5 to 10 pages each would tell you more than the before and after view. Are you seeing any difference yet between Naver and Daum for pages with the same publish date?
Not yet. I only started logging request dates this week, so there is nothing to compare, and the Daum side has a gap because my webmaster session expired before I could submit the latest pages. The control group is a better design than my before/after view. So far I have been requesting every new page, which means I have no baseline at all.