
How to Audit Internal Links for Google Indexing
Summary Separate discovery, crawling, indexing, and search presence. Internal links can help Google find URLs, but they don’t guarantee inclusion or …

Summary Separate discovery, crawling, indexing, and search presence. Internal links can help Google find URLs, but they don’t guarantee inclusion or …

Summary A new page can be undiscovered, not yet crawled, or excluded from Google’s index. Find the status for the individual URL before deciding what …

Summary Search Google for site: followed by the exact guest post URL. A result is a useful indication that Google has indexed the page; no result is …

An XML sitemap audit for Google indexing checks whether the sitemap lists the right URLs, whether those URLs can be crawled and indexed, and whether …

A new WordPress page may not be indexed because Google hasn’t discovered it yet, because a page-level setting blocks indexing, or because technical …

A new blog post marked “Crawled – currently not indexed” has already been fetched by Google, but it hasn’t been added to the searchable index at this …

Summary Scale determines importance. Crawl budget is rarely a concern for small sites but becomes a critical bottleneck for sites with thousands of …

Redirect rules are easy to read and surprisingly easy to misconfigure. A short pre-launch test gives you a record of what each old URL does before …

Straight from Ethan: here’s what’s worth your time and what isn’t. Disclosure: some links here are affiliate links. We earn a …

When a page is missing from Google, do not start by buying submissions or repeatedly clicking Request indexing. First identify where the URL stopped: …

A quick word from Ethan before we dig in — this is simpler than it looks. FTC Disclosure. This guide includes affiliate links. We may receive a …

Field notes from Ethan: what actually holds up in practice, not the textbook version. FTC Disclosure. This guide includes affiliate links. We may …

From Ethan, plainly — people always ask where to begin, so that’s where we begin. We may earn a commission when you buy through them; your cost …