# Indexing

> A search engine adding a page to its searchable database — crawling fetches it, indexing makes it findable; unindexed is invisible.

The pipeline has stages: discovered (seen in a sitemap or link), crawled (fetched), rendered (JavaScript executed, if needed), indexed (stored), ranked (shown). A page can die at any stage — 'Discovered, currently not indexed' in Search Console is Google saying it found the page and chose not to bother, which is usually a quality verdict.

What earns indexing is what earns ranking, a step earlier: unique content worth keeping, internal links that show the page matters, a sitemap that says it changed. The diagnostics to know: Search Console's coverage report, site: queries, and request-indexing for the pages that deserve a nudge.

## Related terms

- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/xml-sitemap.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/robots-txt.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/seo.md

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