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seo glossary from digital now gmbh

What is content indexing?

Content indexing refers to the indexing of website content. Crawlers are constantly searching the WWW for new content and add any new pages discovered to the index. This results in content indexing.

What is the importance of content indexing for SEO?

Content indexing is of great importance for search engine optimization. After all, the aim is to achieve a decent ranking in the search results list with good content. Preferably, a website should be at the top of the list in order to receive as many visitors as possible who trigger a conversion.

Search engine optimizers must always be up to date with the latest ranking factors and adapt websites accordingly. First of all, well-structured and relevant content is important to perform well. But high-quality links are also essential.

Content indexing can be triggered manually. In this case, a created page is simply sent to Google for crawling. Within a short time, spiders visit the website so that indexing is possible. If there is time, webmasters can also wait until the crawlers automatically become aware of the created page. However, this can take some time.

It is also possible to prevent indexing. A page may not yet be completely finished. Or it should not be included for another reason. The meta tag noindex informs the robots that the page should not be included.