diff --git a/src/atextcrawler/resource/operations.py b/src/atextcrawler/resource/operations.py
index 0ed3a22..4edd58f 100644
--- a/src/atextcrawler/resource/operations.py
+++ b/src/atextcrawler/resource/operations.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ async def get_site_path(
     Return the next path of a given site that needs to be processed.
 
     If none needs to be processed, return None.
-    I particular, for sites having crawl_enabled=false return None.
+    In particular, for sites having crawl_enabled=false return None.
 
     Only return paths that have last been visited before *before*
     or not been processed at all. Paths with an ok_count of -3 or lower
@@ -200,34 +200,37 @@ async def process_site_path(
                         site.base_url, res_sitemap.urls
                     )
                     await add_site_paths(conn, site.id_, paths)
-        return False
-
-    # handle TextResource
-    relevant, is_new_resource = await _handle_text_resource(
-        app, conn, tf, site, site_path, resource, url
-    )
-    if not relevant:
-        return False
-    site_path.resource_id = resource.id_
-    site_path.canonical = resource.init_fields.get('canonical')
+        resource_id = None
+        is_new_resource = False
+    else:  # handle TextResource
+        resource_id, is_new_resource = await _handle_text_resource(
+            app, conn, tf, site, site_path, resource, url
+        )
+        site_path.canonical = resource.init_fields.get('canonical')
+        if shortlink_url := resource.init_fields.get('shortlink'):
+            await _save_shortlink(
+                conn,
+                site,
+                url,
+                resource_id,
+                shortlink_url,
+                site_path.last_visit,
+            )
+    site_path.resource_id = resource_id
     site_path.ok_count += 1
     await site_path.save(conn)
-
-    if shortlink_url := resource.init_fields.get('shortlink'):
-        await _save_shortlink(
-            conn, site, url, resource, shortlink_url, site_path.last_visit
-        )
-
     return is_new_resource
 
 
 async def _handle_text_resource(
     app, conn, tf, site, site_path, resource, url
-) -> tuple[bool, bool]:
+) -> tuple[Optional[int], bool]:
     """
-    Ingest a text resource.
+    Ingest a text resource returning the id of the possibly merged resource.
 
-    Return whether the resource is relevant and whether it is new.
+    Return the id of the merged resource (or None if the incoming resource
+    has a too short text and is not worth storing a resource) and
+    whether the resource is new (False if the returned resource_id is None).
     """
     # save the resource's internal links
     paths = []
@@ -250,22 +253,18 @@ async def _handle_text_resource(
             app.config['elasticsearch']['index_base_name'],
         )
         await site_path.save(conn)
-        return False, False
+        return None, False
 
     simhash = simhash_from_bigint(resource.simhash)
     index = site.simhash_index
     similar_ids = search_simhash(index, simhash)
+    print(similar_ids, site_path.resource_id)
 
     # determine the destination resource and resources to be merged into it
     old_id = site_path.resource_id
-    if (
-        old_id
-        and old_id in similar_ids
-        and (  # similar to old text
-            dest_resource := await TextResource().load(conn, old_id)
-        )
-    ):
-        merge_ids = list(filter(lambda elem: elem != old_id, similar_ids))
+    if old_id and old_id in similar_ids:
+        merge_ids = similar_ids
+        dest_resource = await TextResource().load(conn, old_id)
     else:  # no old text, or old text not similar any more
         if old_id:
             await site_path.unlink_resource(
@@ -302,36 +301,34 @@ async def _handle_text_resource(
         create_simhash(index, resource.id_, simhash)
 
     # add resource to search index
-    if resource.content_type in ('html', 'plain'):
-        await index_resource(
+    await index_resource(
+        app.search_engine,
+        tf,
+        site_path,
+        resource,
+        site.base_url,
+        url,
+    )
+
+    # replace references to any merge resource with links to the dest resource
+    sql = "UPDATE site_path SET resource_id=$1 WHERE resource_id=ANY($2)"
+    await conn.execute(sql, resource.id_, merge_ids)
+
+    # remove orphaned resources after merging
+    sql = "DELETE FROM resource WHERE id=ANY($1) RETURNING (id, lang)"
+    rows = await conn.fetch(sql, set(merge_ids) - set([resource.id_]))
+    for row in rows:
+        await delete_resource(
             app.search_engine,
-            tf,
-            site_path,
-            resource,
-            site.base_url,
-            url,
+            row['row'][1],
+            row['row'][0],
         )
 
-    # merge resources: merge_ids -> resource
-    for merge_id in merge_ids:
-        # replace links to the merge resource with links to the dest resource
-        sql = "UPDATE site_path SET resource_id=$1 WHERE resource_id=$2"
-        await conn.execute(sql, resource.id_ or None, merge_id)
-        # remove orphaned merge resource
-        sql = "DELETE FROM resource WHERE id=$1 RETURNING (true, lang)"
-        found = await conn.fetchval(sql, merge_id)
-        if found:
-            await delete_resource(
-                app.search_engine,
-                found[1],
-                merge_id,
-            )
-
-    return True, is_new_resource
+    return resource.id_, is_new_resource
 
 
 async def _save_shortlink(
-    conn, site, url, resource, shortlink_url, last_visit
+    conn, site, url, resource_id, shortlink_url, last_visit
 ):
     """
     Save a shortlink.
@@ -349,11 +346,11 @@ async def _save_shortlink(
                 last_visit=last_visit,
                 ok_count=1,
                 canonical=False,
-                resource_id=resource.id_,
+                resource_id=resource_id,
             )
         else:
             shortlink.last_visit = last_visit
             shortlink.ok_count += 1
             shortlink.canonical = False
-            shortlink.resource_id = resource.id_
+            shortlink.resource_id = resource_id
         await shortlink.save(conn)