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Regarding page indexation

A topic by Pale Opossum created 1 day ago Views: 77 Replies: 4
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Firstly, I have already read both the Getting indexed on Search & Browse and Unofficial search and indexing FAQ.

This post is regarding the indexation of my latest page, which is a demo for a commercial game I'm working on. 
While it is a horror game, it has no NSFW elements. I first published it on October 8th, at 12 AM in my local time.

After noticing it wasn't showing up anywhere in the site outside direct links, I initially thought there had been a problem with the indexing process, since I have never experienced anything of the sort in my previous page releases on itch (which were some years ago). Therefore, I made the mistake of trying to re-publish the page (by setting it to draft and then public again), and I'm pretty sure this has delayed my indexing process even more.

The main reason for me to post this topic is because I'm in the middle of a marketing campaign for this game and it would be very important for me to know what is the expected time for a page to be indexed nowadays, since I was counting with Itch's own discoverability and traffic. The unofficial FAQ barely gives you an estimate and tells you that it could take anywhere from a day to a "long time" if your page doesn't have traffic from outside itch. However, This rule doesn't seem to apply to a lot of games that seem to be instantly indexed when I browse the "latest games" category.

Why is this indexing taking so long to begin with in my case? And what is the expected time for the game to be indexed? As far as I know, my account has had no suspicious activity, and the game itself is totally Safe for Work. I wouldn't be making this post if it didn't seem that the indexing system was working fine for a lot of other games, so I'm trying to understand what is the issue on this particular case.

You’re a first time seller, that’s why it takes so long.

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What Ratten said. That, and October 8 was two days ago. The FAQ clearly says to allow for at least a day, preferably several.

Yeah but I'm not selling anything, its a demo. The game is free.

Same rules apply for free demos by first time publishers. You have to wait more than two days.