It was forty-one pages. I was clicking Request Indexing like it owed me money one Tuesday night last index web page 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.
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. After trying a few, my search for a website indexer ended 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.
Wait, What Does A Website Indexer Actually Do?
Good question, honestly. 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. Sometimes weeks. (I once waited 34 days 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. As far as I can tell it's mostly one job wearing different hats, whether the landing page calls it a page indexer, a url indexer, a site indexer or a google indexer. 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.
None of them can make a thin page good, though. Anyone promising "guaranteed rankings," or an instant indexer that gets you on page one by lunch, is selling you something else.
The Free Stuff I Tried First
I'm cheap, so I started free.
- Search Console's Request Indexing button. Works, but the daily cap is tiny and you're pasting one URL at a time. 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. But Google doesn't use it, and Google is where my traffic lives.
- 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. The API is meant for job postings and livestream pages, according to Google's own docs. For a couple of weeks I used it anyway. And it sort of worked. I didn't love the feeling, and I stopped.
The thing I got wrong was that last one. 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 WebsiteIndexer.io Became My Website Indexer
I've got a friend, Marcus, whose recipe site is about ten times the size of mine. I complained to him over coffee at a Starbucks off Route 9, and he didn't even look up from his phone. "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. 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.
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. Back in April, a gear shop linked to my stove guide, on a page Google clearly hadn't visited in months. I dropped that page in too. That's really all a backlink indexer is, and I'd been paying attention to the wrong half of the problem for years.
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. 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? It might. I didn't test every one on the market, and I won't pretend I did. I tried three, though, and the one I still have open in a tab is WebsiteIndexer.io.
A Few Things I'd Tell A Beginner
First, fix the page. I know it's boring. 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.
People underrate the sitemap. 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.
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.
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. Probably both. But I haven't seen that "come back tomorrow" message since, and that alone was worth it.
The headlamp review is still on page one, by the way.