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Index

Meaning in digital marketing & SEO, with examples

/ˈɪndeks/verbCommon term

In digital marketing & SEO, index means: To add a web page to a search engine's database so that it can appear in search results. As a noun, 'index' is that database itself.

In Turkish: dizine eklemek, indekslemek

How it is used

Used as a verb (Google hasn't indexed the page yet) and a noun (the page is in Google's index). 'Noindex' is a tag that tells search engines not to index a page.

Example sentences

  1. The new blog post still isn't indexed after a week.

  2. We don't want the thank-you page indexed, so add a noindex tag.

Common collocations

  • index a page
  • noindex tag
  • Google's index
  • indexing issues
  • crawlTo visit web pages automatically and follow their links, which is how search engine bots discover and read content.
  • sitemapA file, usually in XML format, that lists the important pages of a website so that search engines can find and crawl them more easily.
  • technical SEOSEO work on how a site is built, so that search engines can crawl, render and index it; it covers things like speed, redirects and sitemaps.
  • SERPShort for search engine results page: the page a search engine shows after someone searches, with ads, links and other types of results.

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