Website Indexing Status

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This step is the most important to check the SEO health of a website . To perform this scan, you need to type the command "site:sitename.it" directly into the Google search bar.


Website Indexing Status
With this command the search engine shows all the pages of a website present in the Google index. The order of the pages is shown according to a ranking criterion. Therefore it is essential that the first result is the home the benefit of using our student database page . In the case in which the home page is not present in the first place it must be considered as a very serious indexing criticality.

You also need to check that the number of pages indexed by Google corresponds to the total number of pages on the website (but you need to keep in mind that some pages/resources may be voluntarily blocked so as not to be indexed).

If we have access to Search Console we can monitor the indexing status in the dedicated section: "Google Index --> Indexing Status".

1.3 Checking Status Codes: 2xx, 3xx, 4xx
To check the status codes of a website's url we can use the Screaming Frog tool. The tool is very simple, you need to enter the domain's url and start the scan. Once the scan is finished, the "Status codes" will be shown next to each url .

The most frequent status codes to take into consideration are:

200 - Status OK: indicates that the URL responds correctly to the call;
301 - Moved Permanently: indicates that a URL is redirected to another URL (always check that the redirect is correct)
404 - Not found: indicates that the page was not found. In these cases it is necessary to handle the error with a 301 or with a page optimized for error handling .