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Adding pages: manually, via CSV, or sitemap

Learn how to add pages in IndexCheckr using pasted URLs, CSVs, or XML sitemaps.

You can add pages to a project either when creating it or at any time afterward, with the Add pages button of the Pages Report. There are three ways to do so: copy-pasting URLs, importing from a CSV file, or importing from an XML sitemap.

💡 Tip: If you only want to know once whether a list of URLs is indexed, without monitoring them, use Quick Check instead.

1. Copy-paste URLs

Paste up to 2,000 URLs, one per line, directly into the input field. This is the fastest way to add a small to medium batch of pages.

Add pages by pasting URLs

2. Import from CSV

Upload a CSV file containing one URL per line. Only the first column is read. The maximum file size is 25 MB, which allows for a large number of URLs. Make sure the file is properly formatted to avoid import errors.

Import pages from a CSV file

3. Import from XML sitemap

Provide the URL of an XML sitemap. IndexCheckr will fetch the sitemap, extract the URLs, and add them to your project. Choose how often IndexCheckr should recheck the sitemap for new pages:

  • Daily

  • Weekly

  • Biweekly

  • Monthly

New pages found in the sitemap will be automatically imported and checked based on your settings.

Import pages from an XML sitemap

Sitemap and sitemap index support

IndexCheckr supports both standard XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes (sitemaps of sitemaps), with support for up to three levels of nesting.

  • A standard sitemap contains URLs directly.

  • A sitemap index contains links to other sitemaps, which may themselves be sitemap indexes.

When you add a standard sitemap, IndexCheckr immediately displays the number of URLs it contains. This number corresponds to how many pages may be imported and how many credits may be consumed.

estimated number of credits

When you add a sitemap index, the total number of pages is not always known upfront. In this case, an Estimate number of pages button is displayed.

Click to get an estimate of credits

  • You can click this button to get an estimate before importing.

  • You can also skip the estimate and start the import directly.

For very large sitemap indexes, the estimation process may time out. If that happens, you can still proceed with the import without an estimate.

If the sitemap can't be read

If IndexCheckr can’t fetch or read your sitemap, a message tells you why:

  • Could not reach the sitemap URL (connection failed or timed out): the site didn’t answer. Check that the URL opens in your browser.

  • The site denied access to the sitemap (HTTP 401/403): the site or its firewall (for example Cloudflare) blocks our requests. Allow access to the sitemap, or add the pages by CSV instead.

  • This site is rate-limiting our requests (HTTP 429): wait a few minutes and try again.

  • Failed to fetch sitemap (HTTP …): the site returned another error, such as 404 if the URL is wrong.

  • Empty sitemap content or Invalid XML sitemap format: the URL answered, but not with a valid XML sitemap.

  • The website hosting the sitemap is too slow to answer: the site took more than 10 seconds to respond.

Import behavior and credit usage

Sitemap imports run in the background and usually start a few seconds after submission. Pages appear progressively in the Pages Report as they are discovered and added.

If the sitemap contains more pages than your available credits allow, IndexCheckr will perform a partial import. Pages are added until your credits are exhausted, and the remaining URLs are skipped.

This behavior applies to both standard sitemaps and sitemap indexes.

Once imported, the number of associated sitemaps is displayed in the Projects Overview. Clicking this number opens the sitemap management, where you can change the import frequency for each sitemap or delete them entirely.

Additional options

When adding pages (using any method), you can also:

  • Add tags in the Tags (optional) field. They are applied to every page in the import and, for sitemaps, to new pages found in the sitemap later. See Organizing pages with tags

  • Set the recheck frequency for the imported pages (none, daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly)

  • Stop checking when pages get indexed, so IndexCheckr stops rechecking a page once it’s confirmed as indexed (this option is off by default)

  • Get notified by email when the check for this batch of URLs is complete

For more details about how rechecks, email notifications, and credit usage work, see Automatic rechecks and email notifications.

Summary

Adding pages is flexible and optimized for both small and large-scale imports, whether you're working manually or automating via sitemap sync.

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