Forty-one pages, all stuck. 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.
About ten times, it let me through. Then came the message telling 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. I went looking for a website indexer, tried a few, and ended up with a clear favorite. Short version? The best website indexer I've used in 2026 is WebsiteIndexer.io. Below is the longer version, with the parts I got wrong left in.
Wait, What Does A Website Indexer Actually Do?
It's a 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. You hit publish, the sitemap updates, and then... nothing happens. Days go by. Sometimes for weeks. (A review of a $60 headlamp once took 34 days for me. 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. 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. 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.
None of them can make a thin page good, though. 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 I Paid a Cent
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. 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. 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. The API is meant for job postings and livestream pages, according to Google's own docs. 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 where I got it wrong. 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
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.
I tried it on the forty-one stuck pages, then. Pasting them index web page 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.
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.
So why did it beat the other two paid ones I poked at? If I'm honest, mostly laziness. I paste a list, and that's it. Its dashboard shows which URLs made it and which didn't, so there's no 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? Possibly. 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. Boring, I know. 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.
Your sitemap matters more than people think. 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.
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. That alone was worth it, though: I haven't seen that "come back tomorrow" message since.
Oh, and the headlamp review is still on page one.