A search box is only as good as what you point it at. Index everything without thinking and visitors start finding your thank-you pages, your old landing pages and the text in your footer. Index too little and they miss the products you actually sell.
Fetchie makes it a decision rather than a guess.
See it before you build it
The Index tab lists every content type on your site, each with a count of how many published items it would add. Posts, pages, products, documentation, and any custom post type you run, all laid out with the numbers next to them.
So you aren’t choosing blind. You can see that "Products" adds four hundred items and "Popups" adds thirty you would rather nobody searched, and decide accordingly. Tick what belongs, click Save selection, and rebuild to apply it.
Types marked "no public page" are flagged as such, because a result a visitor can’t open is a dead end, and those are usually best left off.
Only what is published, ever
Drafts, private posts and password-protected content are never indexed, full stop. The count is of published items only, so what you see is what a visitor could actually reach.
Untick a type and rebuild, and everything of that type leaves the index. Nothing lingers from a setting you changed your mind about.
Test a page before you commit
Before you spend a rebuild on the whole site, the Test page fetch button fetches a single page exactly the way the indexer would, as a logged-out visitor, and shows you what came back.
This catches the one thing that most often ruins a first index without warning: a maintenance or coming-soon plugin that shows the indexer a placeholder instead of your real page. Run the test, see real content come back, and build with confidence. See a placeholder, and you have saved yourself a rebuild that would have indexed nothing.
Rebuilding is always safe
There’s no wrong moment to rebuild. It refreshes what changed and leaves the rest, so you can adjust what is included, watch the result, and adjust again. Change the selection, rebuild, search a few things the way your customers do, and tune it until the results are what you want.
The point of all of it’s the same: search that covers exactly what you sell and say, and nothing you would rather keep out of the results.