Indexing
When a search engine stores a page so it can show it in results.
In plain English
A page has to be crawled and indexed before it can rank, and many AI tools search those same indexes. New pages that never get indexed are invisible to both.
In practice
A new service page does not show up anywhere until Google indexes it, which a sitemap and internal links help speed up.
Related terms
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