FAQs

Straight answers about website indexing, including what no indexing tool can do for you.

Website Indexer Basics

What Does a Website Indexer Do?

A website indexer helps search engines find and process your pages. You connect your site once, and the tool reads your sitemap, sends the pages that are not indexed, and reports which ones made it into the index. It replaces hours of checking pages one at a time in Google Search Console.

How Long Does It Take To Index a Web Page?

It varies. Some pages are picked up within hours, while others take days or weeks, and the timing depends on your site quality, crawl history and how many pages you publish. Submitting a page tells Google it is ready. Google still sets the schedule.

Can Any Website Indexer Guarantee Indexing?

No. Google alone decides what goes in its index, so be careful with any service that promises 100% results. Thin, duplicate or blocked pages can stay out even after repeat sends. We run site checks and show you each page's status, so you know what to fix.

Is Website Indexing Safe for My Site?

Asking Google to crawl pages you own is a normal part of running a site. We work only with domains you verify in Google Search Console. We do not build backlinks, send other people's URLs or change anything on your website.

Do I Need Google Search Console to Index My Website?

Yes, Google Search Console is required to connect your website to our indexer. You need to connect your Google Search Console property and grant us Full permission so we can verify website ownership, access your website's indexing data, check the indexing status of your pages and submit your "not indexed" URLs for indexing.

Do You Use the Google Indexing API for Indexing?

No, we do not use the Google Indexing API for indexing. We use our own in-house indexer. For your information, Google stopped the Indexing API on September 11, 2024, under its spam update, and any indexers claiming to use the Google Indexing API to index your URLs are fake.

When Pages Are Not Indexed

What Does "Discovered, Currently Not Indexed" Mean?

Google knows the URL exists but has not crawled it yet. Often it is waiting for crawl capacity, which is common on new sites and on sites that publish many pages at once.

What Does "Crawled, Currently Not Indexed" Mean?

Google fetched the page and chose not to store it for now. Resubmitting alone rarely fixes this. Look at the content first: pages that are thin, duplicated or lack internal links are the usual cases.

Why Is My Page Not Showing Up on Google?

The usual causes are a noindex tag, a robots.txt rule, a canonical tag pointing elsewhere, a server error, few internal links, or content Google does not consider worth storing. Google Search Console's URL Inspection tool shows which one applies to a page.

Using WebsiteIndexer.io

Do I Have To Submit My URLs Myself?

No. Once your site is connected, our system finds your pages by reading your sitemap, checks each one and sends the ones not indexed, every day. Your site needs a working sitemap, and our site checks tell you if there is a problem with it.

What Is IndexNow?

IndexNow is a free protocol that tells search engines when a page is new or has changed. A submission is shared with every participating service: Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yep, Amazon and Internet Archive. Google does not take part, which is why we offer a separate Google Indexer.

Is IndexNow Really Free on WebsiteIndexer.io?

Yes, with any active plan. It costs nothing extra and never uses your URL limit. You can send up to 200 pages per domain every day, on every plan, and new and updated pages go first. You upload one small key file once, and it runs by itself after that.

Can I Submit Pages From a Site I Do Not Own?

No. WebsiteIndexer.io only works with domains you connect through your own Google Search Console property, so it cannot be used to index backlinks or other people's pages.

Do I Need To Install Anything on My Website?

Not for the Google Indexer. There is no plugin or code to add, because it runs through your Google Search Console connection. IndexNow needs one small key file in your site's root folder, which you download from your dashboard and upload once.

Does Website Indexing Improve My Rankings?

Not directly. Being indexed only makes a page eligible to appear in search. Where it ranks depends on its content, links and how well it answers the search.

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