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  • Search visibility and indexing

    Higher website rankings: A table for choosing the right page

    Requests for higher website rankings usually concern the whole site, but Google ranks each page separately. This article explains how to view the Search Console performance report by page, sort your URLs into four categories and choose one target page.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    Essential technical SEO checks: a checklist to hand to your developers

    We turned the technical SEO checkpoints into a table you can hand straight to your development team. Each item comes with a verification method, pass criteria and the official Google document, and we also checked the rules that apply separately to AI search bots.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    Google not indexing your page? What to fix and when to request indexing

    Sort the reasons in the page indexing report into those a request resolves and those that need a page or server fix. Covers where to fix each reason, how to tell the three canonical URL reasons apart, and when and how often to request Google indexing.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    Google Search Console setup: Domain vs. URL-prefix properties

    How to choose between a domain property and a URL prefix property for Google Search Console registration, which of the five ownership verification methods your site can use, and why DNS verification doesn't go through right away.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    Registering a blog with Google and Naver search: what works for each type of blog

    A Naver Blog runs into Search Advisor's host-level rule and has no way to verify ownership in Search Console, so it cannot be registered with either. This article explains where each type of blog can be registered, how Naver Blog posts get into search, and how far robots.txt blocks AI search bots.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    Why you rank high on Google but get no clicks

    If you rank high on Google but get no clicks, AI Overviews or ads have taken over the first screen of results, or the query intent doesn't match your page. Learn how to compare Search Console metrics by query and record the first screen for queries ranking in the top 10 with 0 clicks.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    How to check Google indexing, and how to read conflicting results across tools

    Check Google indexing with site: search, Search Console URL Inspection, the Page Indexing report, and the page filter in the Performance report, and judge a single page by its URL Inspection value. Learn how to read each combination of conflicting values and how to recover pages dropped from the index.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    How to use Google Search Console: What the metrics mean

    How to use Google Search Console, in the order the screens appear after registration. Covers what clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position mean, why the Queries and Pages tab totals don't match, where the indexing and sitemap reports are, and where AI Overview impressions are counted.

  • Search visibility and indexing

    Registered your site with Google but still not showing up? What to check

    Registering with Google Search means verifying ownership in Search Console; search visibility starts only after Google indexes your pages. Covers the steps to register your site with Google, what to record from publishing to the first impression, and what to do for each indexing status if you still don't appear after registering.