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AI Overview vs AI Mode: What's Different for Indexing
What Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode share, where they differ, and why both begin with the same requirement: an indexed page.
How to Submit Your Website to Google
Four honest ways to submit your website to Google, what each one actually does, and how to confirm your pages made it into the index.
How Long Does It Take for Google to Index a Page?
Google says crawling alone can take days to weeks. Why the range is so wide, what narrows it, and how to learn the date your page actually went in.
Indexing First: Why AI Overviews and AI Mode Only Cite Indexed Pages
AI Overviews and AI Mode cite pages from Google's index. If a page is not indexed, it cannot be cited, whatever else you optimize.
How to Check If Your Site Appears in AI Overviews and AI Mode
Three practical ways to check your AI Overview and AI Mode presence, what each one can and cannot tell you, and why the index comes first.
How to Request Indexing in Google Search Console (Step by Step)
Where the Request Indexing button lives, what it actually does, the limits Google puts on it, and what to do when one URL at a time is not enough.
Indexation Rate: How to Calculate and Improve Yours
A working method for calculating indexation rate, deciding what belongs in the denominator, and improving the number without guesswork.
AI Search Indexing: How ChatGPT Search and Perplexity Discover Pages
How ChatGPT Search and Perplexity find and fetch pages, which crawlers do what, and why ordinary indexing still carries most of the weight.
The Index Coverage Report: Every Status and What It Means
What every status in Google Search Console's index coverage report means, which ones need action, and which are safe to leave alone.
What Is Google Indexing? (And Why It Decides Your Traffic)
Google indexing explained plainly: what the index is, how pages get in, and why a page that stays out earns nothing from search.
IndexNow vs Google Indexing API: Which Should You Use?
How IndexNow and Google's Indexing API differ, who each one actually serves, and what to use when the index you care about is Google's.
Discovered – Currently Not Indexed: Causes and Fixes
What the Discovered, currently not indexed status means, why Google postpones the crawl, and the fixes that actually move pages out of it.
Google AI Mode: What It Is and How Your Pages Get Cited
What Google AI Mode is, how it selects the pages it cites, and why an indexed page is the entry requirement for appearing at all.
Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: What It Means and How to Fix It
What Google's crawled, currently not indexed status means, why pages sit in it for months, and the fixes that actually move them.
What Is Indexation and Why the Indexation Rate Matters
Indexation is Google deciding a page belongs in its index. What that decision involves, how to measure your indexation rate, and what a low rate tells you.
Six reasons Google declines to index a page that looks fine
A page can return 200, render perfectly, and still never enter the index. These are the six causes we see most often, and how to tell which one you have.
Submitted is not indexed, and the difference costs you money
Most indexing tools report delivery and let you assume the rest. Here is what happens after a URL is submitted, and why the two are not the same.
