SEO question that matters more on a big or fast-moving site. you publish new pages and they sit uncrawled and unindexed for days or weeks, which for timely content or a large catalog is lost traffic. the supposed levers are submitting sitemaps, the indexing request tools, strong internal links to the new pages, publishing consistently so the crawler visits more often, and making sure you are not wasting crawl budget elsewhere. but a lot of the advice is folklore. so does anything actually reliably speed up how fast new pages get crawled and indexed, what genuinely works versus what is wishful thinking, and how do you get a new page indexed quickly when it actually matters?
the crawler finds pages by following links, so the most reliable thing you can do is link a new page from somewhere that already gets crawled a lot. an orphaned page just sits there waiting to be found. drop a link to it from your homepage or some hub you update often and it gets picked up quickly.
good instinct. most of the repeated indexing advice, the pinging services and social signals and resubmit the sitemap again, does almost nothing. the few things that work is internal linking, keeping crawl budget healthy, and publishing consistent. put your effort on the levers that have a real mechanism and skip the ritual ones.
you can actually confirm this instead of guessing. watch your crawl logs after you add the internal links and see how fast the crawler hits the new pages compared to the orphaned ones. the logs show the crawler actually arriving, so you know whether the linking pulled crawl or not.
sitemaps are worth having but people expect too much from them. a sitemap tells the crawler a page exists, it doesn’t make it crawl any faster. on wordpress just make sure your sitemap plugin keeps things accurate and includes new pages automatically, and lean on internal linking for the actual speed. resubmitting the sitemap isn’t an indexing button.