In fact, this approach is preferred because the URL Inspection tool will help you complete the other audit items on this list.
While it's important that search engines can index your URL, you also need to make sure that they can index your actual content . While not completely reliable, this is a quick way to simply check Google's cache of your URL. You can do this with the following code, replacing "exampleom" with your URL.
s:googleomsearch?q=cache:s:exampleom
Returns 200 status code
At the page level, if you want search engines to index a URL, you generally need to return a 200 response status code. Obviously, you want to avoid 4xx and 5xx errors. A 3xx redirect code is less fatal, but it usually means that the URL you are auditing is not the URL you want to rank.
Indexable via robots meta tag and X-robots-tag
If you see indexing issues, you want to quickly check to belgium mobile database make sure the page is not marked with a robots "noindex" directive. There is no problem without a robots directive, as the default value is "index".
Most of the time, robots directives are placed in the HTML as a meta robots tag. More rarely, they are placed in the header as an X-robots tag. You can check both places at will, but Google's URL Inspection report will quickly tell you whether indexing is allowed or not.
Note: If the URL is not indexed, use Test Live URL in Search Console to check the indexability status.
URL is not blocked by robotsxt file
While Google can still index the URLs in robotsxt , it won’t actually be able to crawl the content on the page. Blocking via robotsxt is usually enough to exclude a URL from Google’s index entirely.
If the URL is simple, you can do a quick visual check of the robotsxt file.