What is Indexing?

[lavyhair]

An index is another name for the database used by a search engine. It contains information on all the websites the search engine was able to find. If a website is not in a search engine's index, users will not be able to find it using that search engine. Search engines regularly update their indexes.

[unlimiteddata]

Pages of your website are indexed by crawler to save in its database. This saving process is called indexing. There may be hundreds of pages in your website. But every page will be indexed, it can’t be assured. To check indexing status we use this command, “site:yourdomainname”. This command is used for even keyword mapping.

Indexing is a key process to get your website ranked. Your website can not get ranked until it indexed. So, you now have came to know that indexing is the first step of search engine optimization.

[Dyhair77]

An index is another name for the database used by a search engine. It contains information on all the websites the search engine was able to find. If a website is not in a search engine's index, users will not be able to find it using that search engine.

[cherryyitlh]

Crawling means the search engine robot crawl or fetch the web pages while Indexing means search engine robot crawl the web pages.

[addisoncave]

List is only an information structure that stores the qualities for a particular section in a table. A file is made on a section of a table. Example,we have a database table called User with three sections – Name, Age, and Address.

[lavyhair]

Crawling and indexing are saved data by search engine of any website.

[ehostingpk]

An index is another name for the database used by a search engine. It contains information on all the websites the search engine was able to find. If a website is not in a search engine’s index, users will not be able to find it using that search engine. Search engines regularly update their indexes.

[pawleybel]

Index is a systematic arrangement of entries designed to enable users to locate information in a document. The process of creating an index is called indexing.

[gsmxperts]

SEO is a very big, deep sea. To fully understand SEO, we should know some basic SEO terms. Crawling and indexing are two such terms. If you have been in the web world for a while, you've at least heard the words: Google Crawling and Indexing.

[pablohunt2812]

What is indexing?

In order for your site's contents to be included in the results of your custom search engine, they need to be included in the Google index. The Google index is similar to an index in a library, which lists information about all the books the library has available. However, instead of books, the Google index lists all of the webpages that Google knows about. When Google visits your site, it detects new and updated pages and updates the Google index.

To see which pages on your site are in the Google index, you can do a Google Web Search for "site:mywebsite.com". If you want more pages included in the Google index, you can create and submit a Sitemap through Webmaster Tools.

If you don't want to wait for your newly added or updated pages to appear in your custom search engine results, see On-demand indexing.