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Can’t wait for your new content to get indexed?

Learn why it’s so hard to estimate how long indexing may take and what you can do to speed things up.

Indexing is the process of downloading information from your website, categorizing it, and storing it in a database. This database – the Google index – is the source of all information you can find via Google Search.

Pages that aren’t included in the index cannot appear in search results, no matter how well they match a given query.

Let’s assume you’ve recently added a new page to your blog. In your new post, you discuss a trending topic, hoping it will provide you with a lot of new traffic.

But before you can see how the page is doing on Google Search, you have to wait for it to be indexed.

So, how long exactly does this process take? And when should you start worrying that the lack of indexing may signal technical problems on your site?

Let’s investigate!

How Long Does Indexing Take? Experts’ Best Guesses

The Google index contains hundreds of billions of web pages and takes up over 100 million gigabytes of memory.

Additionally, Google doesn’t limit how many pages on a website can be indexed. While some pages may have priority in the indexing queue, pages generally don’t have to compete for indexing.

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