What is Google Index & How Does It Works?
What is Google Index?
Google’s index is simply a list of all the web-pages that the search engine knows about. If you want your site to show up in the search results, then it needs to be indexed. Second
So, in easy word Google is like a shopkeeper, who store their products in the shop to sell to the user. Like shopkeeper, Google store information as items that is known as Google Index.
How Does Google Search Works?
Think Google as a Shopkeeper.
1. Crawling – Shopkeeper goes to Vendor and Wholesaler for buy the products, same Google also send the bots to the website for visit and crawl the web-pages.
2. Indexing – Shopkeeper than store products into the warehouse or shop. Same Google store crawled information to their database known as indexing.
3. Ranking – Shopkeeper sales the products based on user requirements, same Google show the webstie list under search result based on users’ interest. It is known as search engine result page and ranking.
So, in short Search engine’s bots visit the website, known as crawling, then store their information, known as indexing, and then show result to the users known as ranking.
Hope you understand now, what is crawling, what is indexing and what is ranking.
How to check website or any specific page is indexed or not? How many pages has been indexed on Google.
1. Open google or bing and search using site:xyz.com or site:xyz.com/pages. This way you can get an idea of number of Indexed pages on Google.
2. You can use tools like howays tools link given on the description.
How can we get page indexed if not already?
- Add your website on search console if not already, then submit your sitemap to your google search console.
- Use url inspection tool to crawl your website / page
- Submit your website to ping tools, also available on howays tools link given on the description.
What is the reason Google is not indexing the pages?
- Website page may be not public visible
- It has been blocked by Robots.txt
- Meta tag noindexed used for this page
- Content is fully duplicate?
What is difference between Crawling and Indexing?
When Google or search engine store the information to the database known as indexing, but when Google show website on search result based on various factors is ranking.