Google Index 2025: 10 Fast Ways to Get Indexed | 10XAI

If your website isn’t indexed by Google, it simply doesn’t exist in search results. That means no visibility, no organic traffic, and no conversions — no matter how great your content is.

That’s why you’re here, right? Let’s fix that together. In this guide, you’ll learn how to identify and solve the three most common Google Indexing problems:

1. Your entire website hasn’t been indexed.
2. Some pages are indexed, but others aren’t.
3. New pages take too long to get indexed.

Before diving into the technical fixes, let’s first understand what Google Index is — and how indexing actually works in 2025.

What Is Google Index?

Google Index is the process by which Google crawls, analyzes, and stores web pages in its massive search database. Only pages that are indexed can appear in Google’s search results. If your pages aren’t indexed, it’s as if your website doesn’t exist at all.

Think of it like publishing a book: if no library, bookstore, or online retailer lists your book, no one can find or read it. Google Indexing works the same way — if your site isn’t listed in Google’s “library,” it won’t show up anywhere.

How to Check If Your Website Is Indexed by Google

The simplest way to check if your site is indexed is by using Google Search itself. Type this into the search bar:
“site:" + "yourwebsite“

Example: “site:10xai.top“

If you see results, that means Google has indexed those pages. The number shown gives you a rough estimate of how many pages are indexed. If no results appear, then Google hasn’t indexed your site yet.

For a deeper look, use Google Search Console (GSC). Go to Index → Coverage. You’ll see two main numbers: valid pages (with or without warnings). If both are zero, your website isn’t indexed at all — which means it’s invisible to search engines.

You can also check a specific URL using the URL Inspection Tool in GSC. If it says “URL is on Google,” your page is indexed. If it says “URL is not on Google,” it’s not indexed yet.

10 Fast Ways to Get Indexed by Google in 2025

If you’ve confirmed that your site or some pages aren’t indexed, don’t panic. There are proven, technical steps you can take right now to speed up the process.

Here are 10 effective ways to get indexed faster:

1. Remove crawl blocks in robots.txt
2. Remove fake noindex tags
3. Add pages to your sitemap
4. Remove fake canonical tags
5. Fix orphan (unlinked) pages
6. Fix internal nofollow links
7. Add strong internal links
8. Ensure your pages are unique and valuable
9. Remove low-quality or thin pages
10. Build high-quality backlinks

1. Remove Crawl Blocks in robots.txt

If Google isn’t indexing your entire website, your robots.txt file might be blocking it. Check by visiting yourdomain.com/robots.txt and look for lines like:

1. User-agent: Googlebot. Disallow: /
or
1. User-agent: *2. Disallow: /

These commands tell Googlebot not to crawl any pages. Delete them immediately.

You can verify this issue in Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool. If it says “Crawl allowed? No – Blocked by robots.txt,” open your robots.txt file and remove the “Disallow” lines that block essential pages or directories.

2. Remove Fake Noindex Tags

Pages with noindex tags tell Google not to index them. This is fine for private or duplicate pages, but it’s a common reason why your key pages are missing from search results.

There are two main places where noindex can appear: in the meta tag or in HTTP headers (X-Robots-Tag).

In the meta tag, it looks like this:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

Use a site audit tool like Ahrefs Site Audit to find all “Noindex pages” and remove the unwanted tags.

If the noindex directive appears in the HTTP header, use Google Search Console to inspect the URL. If you see “Indexing allowed? No: ‘noindex’ detected in X-Robots-Tag,” it means the header is blocking Googlebot. Ask your developer to remove that header.

3. Add Pages to Your Sitemap

Your sitemap helps Google understand your website structure and prioritize which pages to crawl. To check if a page is included, use the URL Inspection Tool. If it says “Sitemap: N/A,” it’s not listed.

If you don’t use Search Console, manually check by visiting yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. If your page isn’t listed, add it. Then ping Google to notify the update:
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

This step helps Google crawl and index your pages faster.

4. Remove Fake Canonical Tags

Canonical tags tell Google which version of a page is preferred for indexing. If a page has an incorrect canonical tag pointing to another URL, Google may ignore it.

Use Google’s URL Inspection Tool to verify canonical status. If you see “Alternate page with canonical tag,” update it to a self-referencing canonical tag that points to the same page.

5. Fix Orphan Pages (No Internal Links)

Orphan pages are pages with no internal links pointing to them — meaning Google can’t find them. Run a site crawl using Ahrefs Site Audit, then check for the “Orphan Page” report.

Fix this by adding internal links from relevant pages, including them in your sitemap, or removing them if they’re unnecessary.

6. Fix Nofollow Internal Links

Internal links with rel="nofollow" prevent PageRank from passing through and can stop Google from crawling the destination pages. Use Ahrefs’ Site Audit → Link Report to identify affected pages (error: “Page has nofollow incoming internal links only”). Simply remove the nofollow attribute from internal links that point to indexable pages.

7. Add Strong Internal Links

To help Google find new pages faster, link to them from your most authoritative pages. In Ahrefs Site Explorer, go to the Best by Links report. This lists pages with the highest authority (UR). Add contextual internal links from these strong pages to your new or unindexed pages.

8. Ensure Your Page Is Valuable and Unique

Google avoids indexing low-quality or duplicate content. As John Mueller from Google said: “If you want Google to index your page, it needs to be exceptional and genuinely valuable to users.”

Audit your content quality. Does it provide unique insights? Does it satisfy user intent? Is it original, well-written, and well-structured? Use Ahrefs Site Audit + URL Profiler to find thin content pages with little or no organic traffic. Improve them or merge them with related content.

9. Remove Low-Quality Pages

Too many thin or low-value pages can waste your crawl budget and slow down indexing. Google has stated: “Wasting server resources on low-value pages may delay discovery of high-quality content.”

Focus your crawl budget on valuable content. Remove low-quality or duplicate pages from your site and your sitemap.

10. Build High-Quality Backlinks

Backlinks signal authority and importance to Google. Pages with backlinks are crawled and indexed faster. Although Google indexes many pages without backlinks, having high-quality links significantly increases crawl frequency and trust.

Focus on guest posting on relevant blogs, earning mentions from trusted sources, and linking from high-traffic, related content. Remember: Indexing ≠ Ranking. Getting indexed means Google knows your page exists. Ranking requires SEO optimization — keywords, backlinks, content quality, and technical setup.

Conclusion

If your website still isn’t indexed after applying these methods, there are three likely causes: technical issues blocking Googlebot, low-quality or thin content, or a combination of both. Start by fixing technical issues, then improve your content quality. Follow the checklist above — it solves 9 out of 10 indexing issues.

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