Google Indexing Check (URL Inspection) - SEOmatic

Check whether Google indexes the connected site's important pages using the real Search Console URL Inspection data: find pages that are not indexed, explain each reason in plain words, check sitemaps, and stage the fixes. Use when the user asks if a page is indexed, why a page is not on Google, or about crawled not indexed, discovered not indexed, canonical or noindex problems. Runs on SEOmatic, the SEO agent that works from the site's real Google Search Console data; nothing goes live until the user approves it.

Indexing check

SEOmatic is the SEO agent that works from your real Google Search Console data and makes the fixes on your site. Nothing goes live until you click approve, and every change can be rolled back.

A page Google does not index cannot rank, so this is the first thing to rule out. Use Search Console's own URL Inspection data, not a guess from a crawl.

Prerequisite

Search Console must be connected. If a tool reports it is not, give the user this link and stop: https://app.seomatic.ai/connect/gsc - it is one browser step, then re-ask. Do not substitute guesses for GSC data.

1. Choose what to inspect

If the user named URLs, inspect those. Otherwise build the list from what matters: site_pages action inventory for the site's real pages, and gsc_performance action top_pages for the ones earning clicks. Money pages and recently published pages first.

2. Inspect

gsc_indexing action inspect for one URL with full diagnostics, or batch_inspect for many. For each page read: coverage state, last crawl, Google-selected canonical against the declared one, robots and noindex, and mobile usability where present.

3. Translate each status

Status	What it means	Usual fix
Crawled - currently not indexed	Google read it and decided it is not worth indexing	Make it more useful or distinct (content_refresh), link to it (internal_links)
Discovered - currently not indexed	Google knows the URL but has not crawled it	Internal links, sitemap, request indexing (index_request)
Duplicate, Google chose different canonical	Google indexes another URL instead	Fix the canonical (canonical) or consolidate
Excluded by noindex	The page tells Google not to index it	Remove noindex if unintended (robots_directives)
Blocked by robots.txt	Google may not crawl it	Fix robots.txt (robots_txt)
Page with redirect / 404	Not a real page	Fix the internal links pointing at it (broken_link_fix)

Some exclusions are correct (tag archives, cart pages, staging URLs). Say so.

4. Check the sitemaps

gsc_insights action sitemaps: submitted, errors, and how many URLs are indexed against submitted. A sitemap full of redirects or noindexed URLs wastes crawl. If there is no sitemap submitted, sitemap_submit fixes it.

For a site-wide view, the site_audit tool crawls up to 30 pages and catches noindex leaks and canonical mismatches across templates.

5. Report

One line per page: URL, status in plain words, why, the fix. Then the count: "14 of 20 key pages indexed; 4 are crawled but not indexed, 2 point their canonical at the homepage."

Offer to stage the work

Staging needs a paid SEOmatic plan (the key carries the agents:act scope). It costs no credits, runs nothing, and always waits for the user's approval. On a free key the staging actions are locked and say which plan includes them: describe the specific fix instead so the user can pass it on.

Check task_manage action list first so you do not stage a duplicate. Then task_manage action create with up to 5 tasks: index_request, canonical, robots_directives, robots_txt, sitemap_submit, internal_links or content_refresh as the status calls for. noindex and redirect are destructive and need confirmDestructive: true after the user signs off on that URL. Each task needs targetKey (the full page URL, or a topic for content work), a title that states the goal in the user's words ("Get 'pricing calculator' onto page 1", never "Optimize meta tags"), and a rationale with the numbers behind it. Quote cost from each task's estimatedCost.label.

• Tell the user the cards are staged and where to approve them.
• Never approve on the user's behalf. Approval happens in SEOmatic, or through task_manage action decide only after the user says yes to that specific task.
• Approved auto-executable tasks start within seconds: read the result back with task_manage action get before you claim anything changed.

What not to do

• Do not promise a page will be indexed by a date. Requesting indexing asks Google; it does not force it.
• Do not request indexing for a page that is excluded for a good reason.