# Indexing diagnosis worksheet

Record observations only. Mark unknown items as “not checked”. Do not include passwords, tokens or personal data.

## 1. Exact URL after redirects

—

## 2. Visitor purpose and whether the page should appear in search

—

## 3. Check date and publication/change date

—

## 4. Search Console indexed status and last crawl

—

## 5. Separate live test result

—

## 6. Final HTTP status and redirect chain

—

## 7. Public access and text in the rendered page

—

## 8. robots.txt rule affecting this URL, if any

—

## 9. Meta robots and X-Robots-Tag; source of any restriction

—

## 10. Site-declared canonical URL

—

## 11. Google-selected canonical from indexed data

—

## 12. Internal referring link and sitemap inclusion

—

## 13. Evidence: response excerpt, HTML or report field

—

## 14. Confirmed issue, separate from hypotheses

—

## 15. Proposed change and owner

—

## 16. Acceptance criteria and checks after publishing

—

## 17. Actual change date

—

## 18. New crawl date and new indexed status

—

Fixed in code ≠ published ≠ recrawled ≠ indexed ≠ receiving impressions. Record each outcome separately.

[Why a live website may be missing from Google](https://www.neaptide.ai/en/blog/google-indexing-guide)