What is Indexing?

Check Google Search Console's 'Pages' report for indexing status. You can also search 'site:yourdomain.com' on Google to see indexed pages. If important pages aren't indexed, investigate and fix the issues.

Common reasons: your robots.txt blocks crawlers, a noindex tag is present, the page is too similar to other content, quality is too low, or the page is too new. Check Search Console for specific issues.

New pages can be indexed within hours to weeks. Well-established sites with frequent updates get indexed faster. You can request indexing in Search Console, but Google decides when and whether to index.

Crawling is Google discovering and reading your page; indexing is Google adding it to its database. A page can be crawled but not indexed if Google deems it low quality, duplicate, or not useful.