How to analyze the indexing status of a website?
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 5:15 am
You can see which URLs are indexed or not indexed, whether they are valid or have indexing issues, using the Search Console Coverage feature .
Google's free tool is an excellent option due to its ease of use and at the same time its reliability and detail when it comes to detecting indexing problems and assessing possible causes in order to solve them.
In the Valid URLs section you can see the URLs on your site that are indexed by Google. You can also see the valid URLs with a warning , although in this case you should analyze the reason for the warning and solve it to avoid indexing problems. In the Error section you have all the URLs that are not indexed, either due to specific problems or due to the inclusion of the noindex tag.
Another option to see the indexed URLs of a site is to enter the command site: domain in Google. This will allow you to see the (approximate) number of URLs that the domain displays in Google and you can also observe how the SERPs or search results boxes are displayed to users.
Another excellent paid tool for analyzing the status of your afghanistan telegram phone numbers is Screaming Frog . With this tool you will not only be able to see if the URLs are indexable or not, but you will also be able to obtain a lot of very valuable and detailed technical information about each of the URLs in a project.
Remember
Don't forget that a website should not have all of its content indexed in search engines, but only the content that offers a response to a specific search intent and is optimized for SEO, that is, resolving the user's search intent as best as possible and avoiding problems of duplication, thin content, poor optimization, content that does not resolve the search intent, etc.
1.2. Robots
As I mentioned above, the robots.txt file is used to give orders to search engines about which parts of the site should be crawled or not. This is done by means of the Disallow command , followed by a relative URL of the /directory or /url type.
You can also add an Allow command to allow access to certain areas or URLs as an exception to a disallow.
In the robots file you can also define the exact location of the sitemap to make it easier for search engines.
In the SEO Audit you must check that a robots file exists and that it is correctly configured, depending on the areas of the site that should be blocked or allowed for crawling, according to the needs of the project in terms of indexing, crawl budget, pagination, duplicate content, etc.
How to view and analyze robots.txt file?
You can view the robots.txt of any web page by typing the URL domain/robots.txt. It is a file that is visible to the search engine and also to users, so you can easily analyze it even if you do not have access to the project's backend.
1.3. Sitemap
The sitemap xml file should contain a list of the site's indexable URLs to make it easier for Google to crawl and index them, avoiding errors when indexing and speeding up crawling time, which can benefit the accessibility of your project by search engines and optimize your crawl budget .
For this reason, it is recommended that all websites, especially the most complex ones with a large number of URLs, have this file available and added to Search Console so that it can be read by search engines.
The sitemap should include relevant URLs that you want to index, not those that are irrelevant or do not offer content for a specific search intent.
There are several ways to organize the sitemap index for search engines: it can be classified by content types (pages, posts, products, etc.), listed by date, by areas of the website, by priority or most recent URLs, etc.
The important thing is that it is understandable for search engines and that there are no errors in the list of URLs it displays, that is, that the relevant URLs are always there and that irrelevant ones are not included.
How to view and analyze the sitemap file?
You can view the primary sitemap file at the URL domain/sitemap_index.xml. This is where you'll find the index of all the sitemaps you have for the domain. In the example below, each of these secondary sitemaps links to a list of URLs of that type (one links to the list of posts, another links to the list of pages).
Google's free tool is an excellent option due to its ease of use and at the same time its reliability and detail when it comes to detecting indexing problems and assessing possible causes in order to solve them.
In the Valid URLs section you can see the URLs on your site that are indexed by Google. You can also see the valid URLs with a warning , although in this case you should analyze the reason for the warning and solve it to avoid indexing problems. In the Error section you have all the URLs that are not indexed, either due to specific problems or due to the inclusion of the noindex tag.
Another option to see the indexed URLs of a site is to enter the command site: domain in Google. This will allow you to see the (approximate) number of URLs that the domain displays in Google and you can also observe how the SERPs or search results boxes are displayed to users.
Another excellent paid tool for analyzing the status of your afghanistan telegram phone numbers is Screaming Frog . With this tool you will not only be able to see if the URLs are indexable or not, but you will also be able to obtain a lot of very valuable and detailed technical information about each of the URLs in a project.
Remember
Don't forget that a website should not have all of its content indexed in search engines, but only the content that offers a response to a specific search intent and is optimized for SEO, that is, resolving the user's search intent as best as possible and avoiding problems of duplication, thin content, poor optimization, content that does not resolve the search intent, etc.
1.2. Robots
As I mentioned above, the robots.txt file is used to give orders to search engines about which parts of the site should be crawled or not. This is done by means of the Disallow command , followed by a relative URL of the /directory or /url type.
You can also add an Allow command to allow access to certain areas or URLs as an exception to a disallow.
In the robots file you can also define the exact location of the sitemap to make it easier for search engines.
In the SEO Audit you must check that a robots file exists and that it is correctly configured, depending on the areas of the site that should be blocked or allowed for crawling, according to the needs of the project in terms of indexing, crawl budget, pagination, duplicate content, etc.
How to view and analyze robots.txt file?
You can view the robots.txt of any web page by typing the URL domain/robots.txt. It is a file that is visible to the search engine and also to users, so you can easily analyze it even if you do not have access to the project's backend.
1.3. Sitemap
The sitemap xml file should contain a list of the site's indexable URLs to make it easier for Google to crawl and index them, avoiding errors when indexing and speeding up crawling time, which can benefit the accessibility of your project by search engines and optimize your crawl budget .
For this reason, it is recommended that all websites, especially the most complex ones with a large number of URLs, have this file available and added to Search Console so that it can be read by search engines.
The sitemap should include relevant URLs that you want to index, not those that are irrelevant or do not offer content for a specific search intent.
There are several ways to organize the sitemap index for search engines: it can be classified by content types (pages, posts, products, etc.), listed by date, by areas of the website, by priority or most recent URLs, etc.
The important thing is that it is understandable for search engines and that there are no errors in the list of URLs it displays, that is, that the relevant URLs are always there and that irrelevant ones are not included.
How to view and analyze the sitemap file?
You can view the primary sitemap file at the URL domain/sitemap_index.xml. This is where you'll find the index of all the sitemaps you have for the domain. In the example below, each of these secondary sitemaps links to a list of URLs of that type (one links to the list of posts, another links to the list of pages).