Yesterday we reported how Google released the Google Indexing API specifically for job posting URLs but if you look closely at the wording, the API can be expanded well beyond just job posting URLs. I asked John Mueller of Google about the possibility of Google expanding the Indexing API beyond just job posting URLs and he said “I don’t know.” Well, we’d expect that kind of answer from him.

So I dug deeper and he said “I don’t know how how far we we can take that.” But the wording of the API pages makes it sound like it will be expanded to other areas and I know Google, espesially John Mueller, hates to preannounce things. He said “Yeah, I mean it’s it’s something where we we need to see how how it works out first.” So maybe we will see this used in other areas but for not, I guess they want to see how it works with just job posting URLs.

John also said this is a brand new API and has nothing to do with the real time indexing API from a couple years ago or other APIs.

Here is the video embed, watch me ask him the questions at 2 minutes in:

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Forum discussion at Twitter.