Once your account is connected to an indexer (see Connecting IndexCheckr to indexer tools), you can submit pages for indexing directly from within IndexCheckr.
There are three places where you can submit pages:
From the Projects Overview, using a project’s actions menu
From the Pages Report, using the actions menu of a single page
From the Pages Report, by selecting several pages and using the Actions menu
Until you connect an indexer, the submit actions are greyed out, with the message Connect with an indexer to submit your pages.
Submitting from the Projects Overview
From the Projects Overview, click Submit non-indexed pages to the indexer in a project’s actions menu to submit all its Page not indexed pages in one click. This option appears when the project has at least one non-indexed page.
Pages with the status Domain not indexed are not submitted from here. To submit them, use the Pages Report.
Submitting from the Pages Report
From the Pages Report, you can submit pages in two ways:
Submit a single page with Submit to indexer in its actions menu. This option is shown for pages with the status Page not indexed or Domain not indexed.
Select several pages (or All items to take every page matching your filters) and click Submit to indexer in the Actions menu.
A confirmation window shows how many pages will be submitted and to which indexer. Only non-indexed pages are submitted, including Domain not indexed pages, even if they have already been submitted before.
💡 Tip: Combine the filters of the Pages Report with All items to submit a precise group of pages, for example all non-indexed pages with a given tag.
After submission
The project or campaign naming rules defined in the indexer connection settings are applied when submitting pages. Submissions are processed in the background, and the Sent to Indexer column of the Pages Report shows Queued until the page has been sent, then a green checkmark.
To see which indexer a page was submitted to and when, place your cursor over the checkmark. A page can be submitted several times, to one or more indexers, and each submission is listed.
💡 Note: Submissions use credits from the indexer service, not from IndexCheckr.
Troubleshooting: pages not being submitted
If a submission fails, the Sent to Indexer column shows Failed, Paused or Rejected, and the Indexer settings page shows the error returned by the indexer. IndexCheckr retries automatically, and emails you if the problem persists.
The most common reason is that you have run out of credits with your indexer service. Also check that your API key is still valid. For the meaning of each status and how retries work, see Indexer submission status and troubleshooting.
Summary
Submitting pages to an indexer enables you to act quickly on non-indexed URLs and helps improve indexing coverage when used with connected tools.