Forty-one pages, all stuck. 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. I went looking for a website indexer, tried a few, and ended up with a clear favorite. Short version: 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.
What Does A Website Indexer Do, Anyway?
It's a fair index website question. I didn't really know either.
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. For days. Weeks, sometimes. (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 at 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. So I asked 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.
What I Tried Before Paying For Anything
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. 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 sort of worked. I didn't love the feeling, and I stopped.
That last one is where I got it wrong. 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. 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."
The tool he meant was 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. 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. I'd been paying attention to the wrong half of the problem for years, and that's really all a backlink indexer is.
What made it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? If I'm honest, mostly laziness. I paste a list, and that's it. The dashboard shows me which URLs made it and which didn't, so I'm not refreshing Search Console at midnight. And after the Saturday I lost to service accounts, I'll take the fact that there's nothing to install on my site.
Could another website indexer do the same job? It might. 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
First, fix the page. 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.
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.
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. 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.