What is Indexing?

[PoolMaster]

What is Indexing?

[WoodsPainting]

Indexing is a way of sorting a number of records on multiple fields. Creating an index on a field in a table creates another data structure which holds the field value, and a pointer to the record it relates to. This index structure is then sorted, allowing Binary Searches to be performed on it.

[nick0201]

An index is another name for the database used by a search engine. Indexes contain the information on all the websites that Google (or any other search engine) was able to find. If a website is not in a search engine's index, users will not be able to find it.

[sophiawils59]

Indexing generally refers to getting your web pages indexed in Google & other search engines. A search engine will crawl your website in search of content to add to its index.

[ritesh3592]

Indexing is the most important activity to get the website ranked in the search engine; a website cannot get ranked until and unless it will be indexed by crawlers. So, indexing means search engines getting or collecting web pages and store in its database.

[mariajonas]

Indexing is a way to optimize the performance of a database by minimizing the number of disk accesses required when a query is processed. It is a data structure technique which is used to quickly locate and access the data in a database. Indexes are created using a few database columns.

[RH-Calvin]

Indexing is updating the cached webpages in search engine database. Indexed webpages are now ready for search engine rankings.