Indexing is the act and consequence of indexing : making indexes . The notion of index, in turn, has several uses, although in this case we are above all interested in its meaning as a list or catalog of works, articles, chapters, etc. that has a certain order .
The action of indexing, therefore, refers to the orderly registration of information and data with the objective of generating an index . The idea of indexing is mainly used in the field of the Internet and in economics .
Indexing, in this way, can be linked to the methods that are developed so that the content of a website is included in the Internet index. The objective is to make the information accessible to users.
Typically, web indexing is done by assigning phrases or keywords to a meta-tag field. Search engines look at those keywords and index the pages in question. Thus, when a person browsing the Internet searches for a term that is part of the keywords of a page, the search engine displays said page among its results.
It is interesting to know that there are several processes that must be carried out because they favor the indexing that is carried out of a web space. We are referring to the following:
-Create a large number of internal links.
-Update the aforementioned page daily. And that will make it easier for it to be indexed in just a few hours.
-You must have a menu of categories and subcategories.
-In this list of tasks that facilitate indexing, we cannot overlook the fact that it is advisable to create files called sitemaps, which what they do is collect all the URLs of said web page.
The technical process that is carried out so that a website appears well positioned in search engine results is known as Search Engine Optimization or SEO . Procedures related to SEO aim to improve indexing.
In the economic field, indexing consists of defining the behavior of a variable based on the progression of a reference index. This means that the value of something depends on the evolution of something else .
Specifically, we can establish that financial indexation, which is a price readjustment in which a price index or a specific price is used as a reference to calculate the value of nominal payments, has its advantages and disadvantages.
Among the aspects in favor of this type of indexation we can highlight that it helps to complete what the financial markets are, that there is a long-term development of the capital market or that it is a useful instrument for what the economic authority is. regarding inflation.
On the contrary, among its disadvantages we find the fact that it could increase the persistence of inflation and that the volatility of the so-called fixed income markets in indexed countries, as a general rule, tends to be greater.
Indexation appears when wages or product prices, for example, are periodically adjusted taking a certain index as a reference. Salary indexation , in this framework, links salary and inflation : if a country has inflation of 15% , salaries are also expected to rise by 15% so that workers do not lose purchasing power.