Indexing

Indexing is the process by which search engines analyze crawled web pages and add them to their searchable database (the index). After Googlebot crawls a page, Google's systems process the content, evaluate quality signals, and determine whether the page should be included in the index and how it should rank for relevant queries.

Indexing is monitored using Google Search Console's Index Coverage report, which distinguishes between indexed pages, valid pages with warnings, excluded pages, and error pages. Requesting indexing of specific URLs is possible via the URL Inspection tool's "Request Indexing" function. Ahrefs and SEMrush also track indexed page counts over time.