An index is an indicator or measure of something, and in finance, it typically refers to a statistical measure of change in a securities market. In the case of financial markets, stock and bond market indices consist of an imaginary portfolio of securities representing a particular market or a portion of it.

My Site not getting indexed its been days
 

Hello All,

I am relatively new to this forum and I am having problems with my newly created site. For some reason my site is not getting indexed and its been more than 12 days now. Please help me I have checked robot text file and sitemap and couldn't find anything wrong there please help.

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A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market.

An index is a method of sorting data by creating keywords or a listing of the data.

I'm having a probelem that is partially solved by a post I read at
macromedia.com
Unable to Assign Keywords in Pages Created from a Template
Product: Dreamweaver Platform: All Versions: 2.0 and above ID: 13886
Issue
Keywords are not added to a page created from a template by using either
the menu command Insert>Head>Keywords or the Head category,Keyword
button of the Object Palette.

Index is basically a database used by SEs to store the information about anything on web which their bots crawls on the web and those details are sorted and stored on their index based on many many factors, so that when users queries anything they can get relevant information out of it.

simply index is known as how many pages have been indexed(inserted) in google

Agree with marvinsam

Index means the search engine (Google, Bing, Ask.com, etc) has crawled and recorded the page/site you have published to the web. So you will be able to see your page appears in the search results when typing related keywords.

Indexing means search engine optimization robot crawl the web pages, saved the information and it appear in the search engine optimization.