Page Indexing Review

Overview

Page Indexing Review is the skill of checking whether the pages you care about are actually eligible to appear in Google. For a one-person company, this is one of the highest-leverage technical SEO reviews because you can publish strong pages and still get no result if they are excluded, duplicated, softened by canonicals, or hidden behind bad route hygiene.

When to Use This Skill

Use this when important pages are not showing up in search, when impressions stay near zero after publishing, when Search Console reports excluded pages, or when a redesign changed routes, templates, canonicals, or sitemap behavior.

What This Skill Does

This skill helps you turn Search Console indexing signals into page decisions. It checks URL Inspection, Page Indexing status, canonical selection, duplicate paths, sitemap inclusion, and redirect behavior. The goal is to separate real crawl and index blockers from pages that simply need better content.

Output

The output should include:

• The URL reviewed
• Its current indexing state
• The selected canonical versus intended canonical
• The likely root cause
• The action: fix, merge, redirect, noindex, or leave alone

What Good Looks Like

A healthy indexing layer has:

• Important pages returning 200
• One canonical URL per public page
• Sitemap entries that match live canonical URLs
• No internal links to backup, template, or preview pages
• Clear separation between pages worth indexing and pages that should stay out of search

Common Mistakes

Do not treat every excluded page as a problem. Do not keep backup files or old .html routes in the sitemap. Do not debug indexing without checking the exact canonical URL. Do not keep publishing new pages while canonical and redirect hygiene are unresolved.