Google To Drop Public Submit To Index Tool – Info SEO

Google announced on Twitter

I just tested the public submit tool and it still seems to work, at least at the time I am writing this. Maybe it will be going away? Here is a screen shot:

Plus the ability to go to Google and search for [submit URL], a feature that launched only a year ago also seems to work:

Here is the announcement:

We’ve had to drop the public submission feature, but we continue to welcome your submissions using the usual tool in Search Console and through sitemaps directly.

— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) July 25, 2018

Of course, it doesn’t surprise me that Google wants to kill off the public submit URL tool. I guess it will go away soon.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: It now looks like you need to be logged in to submit a URL either of these ways.

Update 2: The public URL tool is now 100% offline: