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.
I got through about ten times. 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: WebsiteIndexer.io is the best website indexer I've used in 2026. The longer version is below, parts I got wrong included.
So What Does A Website Indexer Even Do?
Fair question. I didn't really 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 waited 34 days once, on a review of a $60 headlamp. The week after it finally got indexed, it hit page one, which made the wait more annoying, not less.)
A website indexer pushes 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 index web page 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. No answer ever came.
But no tool, whatever it's called, can make a thin page good. Anyone promising "guaranteed rankings," or an instant indexer that gets you on page one by lunch, is selling you something else.
What I Tried Before I Paid a Cent
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. 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 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. 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. The feeling wasn't great, so I stopped.
That last one is the thing I got wrong. I really thought the "free hack" was the smart move. What it actually cost me was a Saturday and some peace of mind, for patchy results.
How WebsiteIndexer.io Became My Website Indexer
Marcus, a friend of mine, runs a recipe site about ten times the size of mine. When I complained to him over coffee at a Starbucks off Route 9, he didn't even look up from his phone. "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. Pasting them in one batch took maybe a minute, and then I did what Marcus said and walked away. Most of them showed as indexed in Search Console by the end of that week. A handful stayed stuck, and honestly, when I looked 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. Back in April, a gear shop linked to my stove guide, on 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.
Why did it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? Mostly laziness, if I'm honest. I paste a list, and that's it. I'm not refreshing Search Console at midnight, because the dashboard shows me which URLs made it and which didn't. And after the Saturday I lost to service accounts, I'll take the fact that there's nothing to install on my site.
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. I tried three, though, and the one I still have open in a tab is WebsiteIndexer.io.
What 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.
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'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 on page one.