It was 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. After that it told me to come back tomorrow.
That blog pays my car insurance, and a page Google hasn't indexed earns exactly nothing, so 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. The longer index web page version is below, parts I got wrong included.
So What Does A Website Indexer Even Do?
Fair question. Honestly, I didn't know either.
Google crawls the web when it feels like it, and small sites end up near the back of the line. You publish a post, your sitemap updates, and then... nothing. Days go by. Weeks, sometimes. (I once waited 34 days on a review of a $60 headlamp. It hit page one the week after it finally got indexed, which made the wait more annoying, not less.)
A website indexer pushes your URLs toward the search engines so they get crawled sooner. Depending on whose landing page you're reading, 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. Someone in a Facebook group once 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
I'm cheap, so I started free.
- Search Console's Request Indexing button. The daily cap is tiny and you're pasting one URL at a time, though it does work. For a post or two, fine. For forty-one, miserable.
- IndexNow. It's a free protocol that pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver whenever 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. A YouTube video said it worked for any page, so I spent a whole Saturday at my kitchen table setting up a service account in Google Cloud. According to Google's own docs, the API is meant for job postings and livestream pages. I used it for a couple of weeks anyway. And it sort of worked. The feeling wasn't great, so I stopped.
That last one is where I got it wrong. I thought the "free hack" was the smart move. What it actually cost me was a Saturday and some peace of mind, for patchy results.
Why I Picked WebsiteIndexer.io as My Website Indexer
Marcus, a friend of mine, 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."
WebsiteIndexer.io was what he meant.
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, when I looked at them again, those were weak posts that probably didn't deserve a spot.
The part I didn't expect to care about: it takes any URL, not only mine, so it doubles as a link indexer. Back in April, a gear shop linked to my stove guide, on a page Google clearly hadn't visited in months. That page went in too. That's all a backlink indexer really is, and for years I'd been paying attention to the wrong half of the problem.
Why did it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? If I'm honest, mostly laziness. 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.
Could a different website indexer do the same job? Possibly. I won't pretend I tested every one on the market, because I didn't. But I tried three, and WebsiteIndexer.io is the one I still have open in a tab.
What I'd Tell a Beginner
Fix the page first. Boring, I know. But if a post is 300 copyright of nothing, Google might index it on Monday and quietly drop it by the 20th, and you'll blame the tool.
The sitemap matters more than people think. I had 212 tag pages in mine until last year (no idea why I let that happen), and cutting them made my real posts get 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 still can't say how much of my March bump came from the tool and how much came from me finally cleaning up those posts. Probably both. That alone was worth it, though: I haven't seen that "come back tomorrow" message since.
Oh, and the headlamp review is still on page one.