Indexing
Indexing is when a search engine stores a page it has crawled in its database, so the page can appear in search results and in AI answers built on them.
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What Indexing means
Search works in three steps: crawling (finding and fetching pages), indexing (analyzing and storing them) and serving (ranking them for queries). A page that is not indexed cannot rank, and cannot be cited by AI features that draw on the index.