Forty-one pages. One Tuesday night last March, that's how many posts on my hiking gear blog sat under "Discovered, currently not indexed" in Search Console, and I kept clicking Request Indexing like it owed me money.
About ten times, it let me through. Then it told me to come back tomorrow.
A page Google hasn't indexed earns exactly nothing, and that blog pays my car insurance, so yes, I care about this more than I'd like to admit. So I went hunting for a website indexer, tried a few of them, and came out with a clear favorite. Short version? The best website indexer I've used in 2026 is WebsiteIndexer.io. Below is the longer version, with the parts I got wrong left in.
What Does A Website Indexer Do, Anyway?
It's a fair question. I wasn't sure either, at first.
Google crawls the web on its own schedule, and small sites sit near the back of the line. Your post goes live, your sitemap updates, and then... nothing. Nothing for days. Sometimes weeks. (A review of a $60 headlamp once took 34 days for me. It hit page one the week after it finally got indexed, which made the wait more annoying, not less.)
What a website indexer does is push your URLs toward the search engines so they get crawled sooner. Depending on whose landing page you're reading, website indexer the same thing gets sold as a page indexer, a url indexer, a site indexer or a google indexer, and as far as I can tell it's mostly one job wearing different hats. Once, someone in a Facebook group tried to sell me a "domain indexer" for $97. So I asked what it did differently. He never answered.
None of them can make a thin page good, though. Anyone pitching an instant indexer that gets you on page one by lunch, or promising "guaranteed rankings," is selling you something else.
The Free Stuff I Tried First
Being cheap, I started with the free stuff.
- Search Console's Request Indexing button. The daily cap is tiny and you're pasting one URL at a time, though it does work. It's fine for a post or two. Miserable for forty-one.
- IndexNow. A free protocol that pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver when a page changes. My WordPress plugin turned it on in two clicks, and it's a great idea. But my traffic lives on Google, and Google doesn't use it.
- Hacking the Google Indexing API. Because a YouTube video said it worked for any page, I lost a whole Saturday at my kitchen table setting up a service account in Google Cloud. Google's own docs say the API is meant for job postings and livestream pages. I used it anyway for a couple of weeks. It sort of worked. The feeling wasn't great, so I stopped.
That last one is the thing I got wrong. The "free hack" seemed like the smart move to me. What it actually cost me was a Saturday and some peace of mind, for patchy results.
How WebsiteIndexer.io Became My Website Indexer
My friend Marcus runs a recipe site about ten times the size of mine. He didn't even look up from his phone when I complained to him over coffee at a Starbucks off Route 9. "Stop babysitting Search Console," he said. "Paste the list, close the tab, check it Friday."
He was talking about WebsiteIndexer.io.
So the forty-one stuck pages went in first. It took maybe a minute to paste them in one batch, then I did what Marcus said and walked away. When I checked Search Console at the end of that week, most of them showed as indexed. A handful stayed stuck, and honestly, looking at them again, those were weak posts that probably didn't deserve a spot.
I didn't expect to care about this part, but it takes any URL, not only mine, so it doubles as a link indexer. A gear shop linked to my stove guide in April from a page Google clearly hadn't visited in months. That page went in too. I'd been paying attention to the wrong half of the problem for years, and that's really all a backlink indexer is.
What made it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? Honestly, mostly laziness. I paste a list and I'm done. I'm not refreshing Search Console at midnight, because the dashboard shows me which URLs made it and which didn't. There's also nothing to install on my site, which I'll happily take after the Saturday I lost to service accounts.
Would another website indexer do the same job? Possibly. I won't pretend I tested every one on the market, because I didn't. But of the three I tried, WebsiteIndexer.io is the one I still have open in a tab.
A Few Things I'd Tell A Beginner
Fix the page first. I know it's boring. But Google might index a post that's 300 copyright of nothing on Monday and quietly drop it by the 20th, and you'll blame the tool.
Your sitemap matters more than people think. Until last year mine had 212 tag pages in it (no idea why I let that happen), and cutting them got my real posts crawled faster.
Then point your website indexer at the stuff you care about: a new post, a guide you just rewrote, a backlink someone gave you on a site Google barely visits.
I'm still not sure how much of my March bump came from the tool and how much came from me finally cleaning up those posts. Probably both. But that "come back tomorrow" message hasn't shown up since, and that alone was worth it.
The headlamp review is still on page one, by the way.