Prices checked on 14 October 2026.
For one page on your own site, use URL Inspection in Search Console. For backlinks or long lists, use a bulk Google index checker. A site: search is a quick hint, not proof.
The right method depends on two things: if you own the site, and how many URLs you need to check. Below are five methods, how to read the results and what a 500-link audit costs.
How: search Google for site: followed by the full URL, for example site:https://example.com/blog/my-post.
Works for: any public URL, including backlinks on other sites.
Volume: one URL at a time, by hand.
Cost: free.
Reliability: a result is a good sign. No result is not proof. Google says an indexed URL "can show up in search results for site: queries", but "it's not guaranteed". Source: site: search operator.
How: open Search Console, paste the URL into the top bar and read the "Page indexing" result.
Works for: URLs on sites you have verified in Search Console. Not for backlinks on other sites.
Volume: one URL at a time.
Cost: free.
Reliability: the most direct answer Google offers for a single URL, with the last crawl date and the canonical Google chose. Source: URL Inspection tool help.
How: in Search Console, open Indexing > Pages.
Works for: your own verified site, as a whole.
Volume: all URLs Google knows on the property, as counts. Example lists stop at 1,000 URLs per status, and you can't search for one URL.
Cost: free.
Reliability: good for patterns and trends. Google itself points to URL Inspection for the status of a specific page. Source: Page indexing report help.
How: call the Search Console API from a script or an SEO tool that connects to it.
Works for: URLs on your own verified properties.
Volume: up to 2,000 inspections per day and 600 per minute for each site. Source: Search Console API usage limits and the URL Inspection API reference.
Cost: free, but it needs a developer setup or a tool that supports it.
Reliability: the same data as the URL Inspection tool.
How: paste or upload a list of URLs. The tool looks each one up in Google and gives you a status per URL, usually as a CSV.
Works for: any public URL, including backlinks on sites you don't own.
Volume: thousands of URLs per run, depending on the tool.
Cost: examples, retrieved 14 October 2026. IndexerPal charges 1 credit per 10 URLs, up to 10,000 URLs per check (https://indexerpal.com/pricing). IndexChex charges 1 credit per URL, up to 10,000 per batch, from $21.99 for 5,000 credits (https://indexchex.com/). UltraIndexer sells index checking separately, from $29 (https://ultraindexer.com/pricing). IndexBolt offers a free Google index checker (https://www.indexbolt.com/pricing); its limits are not stated on that page.
Reliability: depends on the tool. A checker answers the same question as a site: search, for many URLs at once. Treat it as an outside view: for your own pages, URL Inspection has the final word.
Check the exact URL. http and https, www and no www, and a trailing slash can each be a different URL. Check the version that really serves the page.
Look at the canonical. If Google chose a different canonical, it indexes that URL instead. For a backlink, the copy Google indexed may not be the page your link is on.
"Indexed" is not "ranking". An indexed page is eligible to appear. Google notes it won't show up in every search or in the same position.
Results change. Google can drop pages later. Re-check important URLs on a schedule rather than once.
Not indexed is sometimes right. Duplicates, redirects and pages with noindex are meant to stay out.
Search Console can't see other people's sites, so you have two options: site: searches by hand or a bulk checker.
Collect the URL of each page that carries your link, not your own page URL.
Remove duplicates and anything that redirects or returns an error.
Run the list through a bulk index checker and export the results.
For links that aren't indexed, open the page and confirm the link is still there. Check its rel attribute too: Google treats nofollow, sponsored and ugc links differently (qualify outbound links).
Decide per link: submit it to an indexer, ask the site owner to fix the page, or let it go.
You built 500 links last quarter and want to know which pages are in Google.
By hand with site: searches: 500 separate searches. Free, slow, and a missing result still isn't proof.
IndexerPal: 500 URLs ÷ 10 = 50 credits. The smallest pack is $9.99 for 150 credits, so this audit uses about $3.33 of it and leaves room for two more audits of the same size.
IndexChex: 500 credits. The smallest pack is $21.99 for 5,000 credits, so the audit uses about $2.20 of it.
URL Inspection: not possible here, because the pages are on other people's sites.
In both paid cases, the pack price is what you pay up front. Prices retrieved 14 October 2026 from the vendor pages linked above.
It's a hint. A result means the URL is very likely indexed. No result doesn't prove it isn't, because Google doesn't guarantee that every indexed URL shows for a site: query.
Indexed pages don't show for every search. Ranking depends on the query, location and many other factors. Search for the exact URL or a distinctive sentence from the page to confirm it's there.
Check new links about 2 weeks after they go live, then every 1–3 months for links that matter. Pages can drop out of the index or lose the link.
Yes, for your own site, with the URL Inspection tool in Bing Webmaster Tools. Bulk index checkers generally focus on Google.
No. Checking only looks the URL up. With IndexerPal, the index checker sends nothing to search engines; submitting is a separate step that you choose.
First make sure each one can be indexed: it loads without a login, returns 200 OK and has no noindex. The checklist for pages not indexed by Google walks through every cause. Then decide which ones are worth submitting.
Check up to 10,000 URLs in one go with the IndexerPal index checker. For indexing tool prices, see all indexing tool price comparisons.
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