Indexer FAQ
It connects to your Google Search Console and asks Google about every page in your page list (your sitemap). For each page you see whether it is in Google and, if it is not, the reason Google gives, in plain words. Indexer sends the pages that are ready, checks them again until Google answers, and tells you when a page that was listed drops out.
No. Nobody can make Google list a page, and we do not claim to. Indexer hands your pages to Google, asks what Google decided and shows you the answer. When Google holds a page back, you see the reason and what usually has to change before sending again helps.
A Search Console property you can open. You connect by signing in with Google, or with a service account you create. Indexer uses that access to read your sites, your page lists, Google’s answer for each page and your search numbers, and to submit your page list to Google. It cannot change your site. Restricted (read-only) access is enough to check pages, but Google only accepts sending from Full or Owner access.
Indexer resubmits your page list to Google through Search Console, which tells Google the list has changed. There is also an optional direct route that hands pages to Google one by one. Google built that route for job and livestream pages and may ignore it for others, so it is off unless you turn it on, and it needs a service account with Owner permission. Either way, Google decides when to read a page and whether to list it.
Yes. Each site sends at most 100 pages a day unless you change that number in its rules. Your plan sets how many pages can be sent in a month across every site in your workspace: the Free plan has a monthly allowance and Pro has no monthly limit. Google also has its own limits on how many pages can be checked and sent directly in a day. When one is reached, Indexer waits and carries on. One site can hold up to 5,000 pages.
Your page list is read once a day to find new pages. Pages that were sent are checked again every day, pages blocked by something on your site every two days, and every other page once a week, which is how a page that drops out gets noticed. The first check of a new site runs in the background: you can close the app, and you get an email when Google has answered for every page.
An email when a page that was in Google drops out, an email when your site starts blocking a page, and a weekly summary of what got in, what was sent, what dropped out and what needs a fix. Each one can be switched off, and they can go to up to 10 addresses. Unless you turn it off, a page that drops out is sent again when nothing on your site blocks it.
Indexer looks for your page list in Search Console first, then in your robots.txt file, then at /sitemap.xml. If there is none, it tells you. You can also paste page addresses yourself: those are checked like any other page, but because they are in no page list they can only be sent with direct sending turned on.
Indexer is about Google’s index: which of your pages Google lists, and putting the rest in front of Google. Crawler audits your site from your own computer and verifies fixes. Tracker measures the visitors and AI crawlers that reach your site. Intelligence measures how AI assistants answer questions about your brand. They are separate products, priced separately. Indexer and Tracker use the same account and workspace.
There is a Free plan and a Pro plan billed monthly. Checking and watching pages never count towards your plan. Only pages sent to Google do, counted across every site in your workspace. Current prices and allowances are listed under Pricing.
Only the members of your workspace can see your sites, your pages and Google’s answers. The Google credential you connect is stored encrypted and is shown to nobody, your own team included. Indexer uses it only to read Search Console and submit page lists for the sites you add.
A workspace owner can remove a connection under Connections at any time, which deletes the stored credential. If it was your only working connection, checking and sending stop until you connect again. Removing a site deletes its pages and history from Indexer.