Indexing & index status

Crawlability describes whether a crawler such as Googlebot can reach and fetch a URL.

Crawled - currently not indexed is a status in the Page indexing report of Google Search Console.

Deindexing means a URL is removed from a search engine's index and no longer shows in its results.

Discovered - currently not indexed is a status in the Page indexing report of Google Search Console.

Google cache was a Google Search feature that showed the copy of a page Google had stored.

Google Caffeine is the name of a web indexing system that Google announced in June 2010.

Indexability describes whether a URL is technically allowed to be added to a search index.

Index coverage is the indexing status of the URLs of a site in Google Search Console.

Indexed pages are URLs that Google has crawled, processed and added to its index.

Indexing, in SEO, is the step in which a search engine analyzes a crawled page and stores it in its index, the database it draws search …

Mobile-first indexing means that Google uses the mobile version of a site's content, crawled with the smartphone user agent, for indexing …

The Removals tool in Google Search Console lets site owners temporarily hide their own URLs from Google Search results.

The rendering queue is, in SEO, the waiting list where Google places crawled pages until it renders them with JavaScript.

Request indexing is a function of the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console that asks Google to crawl a single URL.

A search index is the database in which a search engine stores what it has learned about the pages it crawled.

A soft 404 is a URL that returns a success status code (usually 200) while its content looks like an error page or an empty page.

The URL Inspection tool is a feature of Google Search Console that shows how Google has indexed a single URL and how Google can fetch and …