It was forty-one pages. That's how many posts on my hiking gear blog were stuck in Search Console under "Discovered, currently not indexed" one Tuesday night last March, and I was clicking Request Indexing like it owed me money.
About ten times, it let me through. Then came the message telling 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. The short version is that WebsiteIndexer.io is the best website indexer I've used in 2026. The longer version is below, parts I got wrong included.
What Does A Website Indexer Do, Anyway?
Fair question. Honestly, I didn't know either.
Google crawls the web on its own schedule, and small sites sit near the back of the line. You publish a post, your sitemap updates, and then... nothing. Nothing for days. Sometimes for weeks. (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.)
What a website indexer does is push your URLs toward the search engines so they get crawled sooner. You'll see the same thing sold as a page indexer, a url indexer, a site indexer or a google indexer, depending on whose landing page you're reading, 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. I asked him what it did differently. No answer ever came.
But no tool, whatever it's called, can make a thin page good. If someone promises "guaranteed rankings," or an instant indexer that gets you on page one by lunch, they're 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. It's fine for a post or two. With forty-one, it's miserable.
- IndexNow. It's a free protocol that pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver whenever a page changes. Great idea, and my WordPress plugin turned it on in two clicks. But Google doesn't use it, and Google is where my traffic lives.
- Hacking the Google Indexing API. I spent a whole Saturday at my kitchen table setting up a service account in Google Cloud, because a YouTube video said it worked for any page. According to Google's own docs, the API is meant for job postings and livestream pages. I used it anyway for a couple of weeks. It kind of worked. I stopped, because I didn't love the feeling.
That last one is the thing I got wrong. I really thought the "free hack" was the smart move. The results were patchy, and it cost me a Saturday and some peace of mind.
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."
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. To be honest, the handful that stayed stuck were weak posts that probably didn't deserve a spot, now that I look at them again.
Here's the part I didn't expect to care about: it takes any URL, not only mine, so it doubles as a link indexer. In April a gear shop linked to my stove guide from a page Google clearly hadn't visited in months. So I dropped that page in as well. That's all a backlink indexer really is, and for years I'd been paying attention to the wrong half of the problem.
So why did it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? Mostly laziness, if I'm honest. Paste a list, and I'm done. The dashboard shows me which URLs made it and which didn't, so I'm not refreshing Search Console at midnight. And there's nothing to install on my site, which I'll 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 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
Start by fixing the page. I know, boring. If a post is 300 copyright of nothing, though, Google might index it on Monday, quietly drop it by the 20th, and you'll end up blaming the tool.
People underrate the sitemap. 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 aim 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. Both, probably. But I haven't seen that "come back tomorrow" message since, and that alone was worth it.
By the way, the headlamp review is still website indexer on page one.