Quick summary
- Term
- Indexing
- Plain-English definition
- Indexing is the process by which a search engine discovers, stores, and makes pages eligible to appear in search results.
- Technical definition
- Indexing is the process by which a search engine discovers, stores, and makes pages eligible to appear in search results.
- Commonly confused with
- Related domain, DNS, registrar, API, or agent-infrastructure terms.
- Related terms
- SEO, Sitemap, Canonical URL
Definition
Indexing is the process by which a search engine discovers, stores, and makes pages eligible to appear in search results.
Why it matters
Glossary pages need crawlable HTML, canonical URLs, and sitemap inclusion to be indexed reliably.