It was forty-one pages. I was clicking Request Indexing like it owed me money one Tuesday night last March, because that's how many posts on my hiking gear blog were stuck in Search Console under "Discovered, currently not indexed" at the time.
It let me through about ten times. After that it told me to come back tomorrow.
I care about this more than I'd like to admit, because that blog pays my car insurance and a page Google hasn't indexed earns exactly nothing. After trying a few, my search for a website indexer ended with a clear favorite. The short version is that WebsiteIndexer.io is the best website indexer I've used in 2026. You'll find the longer version below, including the parts I got wrong.
So What Does A Website Indexer Even Do?
It's a fair question. I wasn't sure either, at first.
Small sites sit near the back of the line, because Google crawls the web on its own schedule. You hit publish, the sitemap updates, and then... nothing happens. Days go by. Sometimes for weeks. (I waited 34 days once, on a review of a $60 headlamp. Once it finally got indexed it hit page one within a week, and that 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. A guy in a Facebook group once tried to sell me a "domain indexer" for $97. 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 started free, because I'm cheap.
- Search Console's Request Indexing button. Works, but the daily cap is tiny and you're pasting one URL at a time. It's fine for a post or two. For forty-one, miserable.
- IndexNow. When a page changes, this free protocol pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver. It's a great idea, and turning it on in my WordPress plugin took two clicks. Google doesn't use it, though, 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 for a couple of weeks anyway. 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. It cost me a Saturday and some peace of mind, and the results were patchy.
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 read more 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. 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. 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.
The part I didn't expect to care about: 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.
Why did it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? Honestly, mostly laziness. I paste a list and I'm done. Its dashboard shows which URLs made it and which didn't, so there's no 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 another website indexer do the same job? It might. I didn't test every one on the market, and I won't pretend I did. But of the three I tried, WebsiteIndexer.io is the one I still have open in a tab.
If You're Just Starting Out
First, fix the page. I know it's 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.
The sitemap matters more than people think. Cutting the 212 tag pages I had in mine until last year (no idea why I let that happen) made my real posts get crawled faster.
After that, use your website indexer on the stuff you care about, like a new post, a guide you just rewrote, or a backlink someone gave you on a site Google barely visits.
How much of my March bump came from the tool, and how much from me finally cleaning up those posts? I'm still not sure. Likely both. That alone was worth it, though: I haven't seen that "come back tomorrow" message since.
The headlamp review is still on page one, by the way.