Meaning & use

Indexable

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Capable of being catalogued, listed, or included in an index, especially by a search engine or database.

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Make sure the new blog pages are indexable so they show up in search results.

The tool can flag which parts of the site are indexable and which are blocked by robots.txt.

A note on using this word

This term is especially common in web development and SEO, where it describes whether a search engine crawler is permitted to add a page to its index.

Words with a similar meaning

searchablecatalogable

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Words with an opposite meaning

non-indexable

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