diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 05cb2a0..e399b7d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,16 @@ pages:
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - public
+
+# This sequences waits 10 seconds after deploy (for GitLab pages to do its thing, then pings search engines)
+# I wish we could just depend on the pages:deploy job that GitLab inserts, but apparently we can't reference it.
+wait:
+  needs:
+  - "pages"
+  script:
+  - sleep 10
 ping:
   needs:
-  - "pages:deploy"
+  - "wait"
   script:
   - mix pre_dot_hn.ping