Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “What is "indexability"?”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)**Indexability** is a page's ability to get into the search index after a bot has crawled it. **Key point:** crawlability is about whether the bot reaches the page, while indexability is about whether the page makes it into search.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)Image**Indexability** is a page's ability **to get into the search index** after a bot has crawled it. --- ### In simpler terms: Even if a page is accessible for crawling, that doesn't mean it will show up in search. **Crawlability** means the bot can reach it. **Indexability** means the bot decided: "this page is worth adding to the index". --- ### What affects indexability: 1. **Meta tags** - `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` - blocks indexing. - `<meta name="robots" content="index">` - allows it. 2. **HTTP headers** - Code 200: everything is fine; - 301/302: a redirect, not indexed; - 404/500: an error, also won't make it into the index. 3. **Canonical URLs (**`rel="canonical"`**)** - If a page is marked as a duplicate, only the original gets indexed. 4. **Duplicates and thin content** - If there are many identical or empty pages, the search engine may ignore some of them. 5. **Blocking in robots.txt** - If the bot couldn't read the page, there's nothing to index. --- ### Conclusion: **Crawlability** is about whether the bot reaches the page. **Indexability** is about whether the page makes it into search. You can have a great site, but without indexability it stays **invisible in the results**.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.