Forty-one pages, all stuck. 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.
It let me through about ten times. Then it told me to come back tomorrow.
A page Google hasn't indexed earns exactly nothing, and that blog pays my car insurance, so yes, 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. 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.
Wait, What Does A Website Indexer Actually Do?
Fair question. I wasn't sure either, at first.
Google crawls the web on its own schedule, and small sites sit near the back of the line. Your post goes live, your sitemap updates, and then... nothing. Nothing for days. 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.)
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. Once, someone in a Facebook group tried domain indexer to sell me a "domain indexer" for $97. So I asked what it did differently. He never answered.
What none of them can do is make a thin page good. Anyone pitching an instant indexer that gets you on page one by lunch, or promising "guaranteed rankings," is selling you something else.
What I Tried Before I Paid a Cent
Being cheap, I started with the free stuff.
- Search Console's Request Indexing button. It works, but you paste one URL at a time and the daily cap is tiny. Fine for a post or two. For forty-one, miserable.
- IndexNow. A free protocol that pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver when a page changes. Great idea, and my WordPress plugin turned it on in two clicks. Google doesn't use it, though, 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. I used it anyway for a couple of weeks. It sort of worked. I stopped, because I didn't love the feeling.
The thing I got wrong was that last one. I thought the "free hack" was the smart move. The results were patchy, and it cost me a Saturday and some peace of mind.
Why WebsiteIndexer.io Became My Website Indexer
Marcus, a friend of mine, runs a recipe site 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. It took maybe a minute to paste them in one batch, 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.
I didn't expect to care about this part, but 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. 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.
What made it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? If I'm honest, mostly laziness. I 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 another website indexer do the same job? Possibly. 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, 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.
People underrate the sitemap. 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.
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.
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.
By the way, the headlamp review is still on page one.