Table of contents
1. Crawl#
Make sure robots.txt does not block pages you want found, and that pages link to each other with ordinary links.
2. Index#
Inspect your key pages in Search Console. The page indexing report lists every reason a page is not indexed.
3. Render#
The URL Inspection tool shows the page as Google rendered it. Content that only appears after a click may be missed.
4. Links#
Fix broken links, collapse redirect chains to one hop, and link to pages nothing links to.
Let the scan do the list#
The site scan reports broken links, redirect chains, orphan pages and sitemap and robots.txt health, ranked by how many pages send visitors into each.
What should we fix first from the scan?
One broken link in the footer reaches every page. Fix that first.
See it on your own site#
The free website check reads a site you name and reports what holds its pages back, with no account and no card. It changes nothing on your site.