Google Indexing API for WordPress: Eligibility Guide

Can WordPress Use the Google Indexing API?

Only when the target page meets Google's documented eligibility: a page with JobPosting structured data or a livestream page with BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject. Ordinary WordPress posts, pages, products, and categories are not supported.

Prerequisites

• A Google Cloud Platform account (free to create)
• A GCP project with the Indexing API enabled
• A service account with a JSON key
• The service account added as an Owner in Search Console for your property

Step 1: Create a GCP Service Account

1. Go to console.cloud.google.com and create or select a project
2. APIs & Services → Enable → search "Web Search Indexing API" → Enable
3. IAM & Admin → Service Accounts → Create Service Account
4. Create a JSON key and download it

Step 2: Add to Search Console

1. Open Google Search Console → Settings → Users and permissions → Add user
2. Enter the service account email (ends in @developer.gserviceaccount.com)
3. Set permission to Owner

Step 3: Configure an Eligible WordPress Content Type

Option A — Indexaro: Verify the domain and configure credentials only after confirming the page template outputs valid eligible structured data. Indexaro can track API requests and quota; Google still validates eligibility and decides whether to index. Start with our Google Indexing API eligibility overview.

Option B — Custom integration:

add_action('publish_post', function($post_id) {
  $url = get_permalink($post_id);
  // Guard this call: the URL must be an eligible JobPosting
  // or livestream BroadcastEvent page.
  // Authenticate + call https://indexing.googleapis.com/v3/urlNotifications:publish
  // with body: {"url": $url, "type": "URL_UPDATED"}
});

Managing Quota

The initial default is 200 publish requests per day per Google Cloud project for onboarding and testing. Eligible production users can follow Google's approval and quota-request process. More credentials do not make unsupported WordPress content eligible.