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Index

Meaning in web development, with examples

/ˈɪndeks/verbCommon term

In web development, index means: For a search engine to store and organize a page after crawling it, so that the page can appear in search results.

In Turkish: dizine eklemek, indekslemek

How it is used

People ask 'Is the page indexed?' and use a noindex meta tag to keep pages such as admin screens or thank-you pages out of the results. In databases, an index is something different: a structure that speeds up queries.

Example sentences

  1. Only half of our product pages are indexed by Google.

  2. Add noindex to the internal search pages so they don't get indexed.

Common collocations

  • get indexed
  • noindex
  • indexed pages
  • request indexing
  • crawlFor a search engine bot to visit pages automatically, follow their links and download their content so that they can be indexed.
  • sitemapA file, usually sitemap.xml, that lists the pages of a website so that search engines can find and crawl them more easily.
  • meta tagAn HTML tag in the head of a page that gives browsers and search engines information about the page, such as its description or viewport settings.
  • SEOSearch Engine Optimization: work that helps a site's pages to be found, understood and shown higher in search engines such as Google.

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