Indexing & Crawling
Understand discovery, crawl access, indexing signals, and why a URL may be missing from search.
How to Audit XML Sitemaps for Indexing Problems
A sitemap can be accepted by Search Console while still listing redirected, removed, or noncanonical pages. A successful submission tells you that the file was processed; it does…
How to Audit Robots.txt Without Blocking Important Pages
A production site can serve useful pages while its robots.txt still contains a staging rule that blocks crawling. The opposite failure is also possible: an edit removes a…
Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: How to Diagnose the Real Cause
Search Console says a URL was crawled but is not indexed. The page opens normally, has a canonical tag, and appears in a sitemap. None of those observations…
Diagnose an Indexing Problem Before Changing Your Canonicals
Check access, indexing directives, and duplicate URL signals in a deliberate order before changing a template.