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Manual crawl requests are basically a copium button for sites with garbage internal linking and messy sitemaps. If Google needs you to babysit indexing at scale, your crawl budget is already screwed. Fix the boring stuff: clean XML sitemaps, stop pumping out thin tag pages, tighten canonicals, and make sure new URLs are actually discoverable from nav or hubs. Also John name-dropping Merchant Center is the tell: if youre ecommerce and not feeding products there, youre doing it wrong and wondering why “request indexing” doesnt work.
