Checking a single page with URL inspection

With URL inspection you can see how Google views a single page of your site. Is the page on Google? If not, why not? After a change, you can also ask Google to look at the page again.

Inspecting a page

1. Open your property in Google Search Console.
2. Type the full address of the page in the search bar at the top, for example https://yourdomain.com/contact/, and press Enter.
3. At the top you can see whether the URL is on Google. Expand the sections for more details: when Google last crawled the page, whether indexing is allowed and which canonical URL Google selected.

This is what Google saw last time. Have you changed the page since then? Run a live test.

Running a live test

1. Click Test live URL.
2. Google now fetches the page. At the top you can switch between Google Index and Live Test.
3. Click View tested page to see the HTML and a screenshot of what Google saw.

Requesting indexing

Is the page new or has it changed significantly? Click Request indexing. Google then adds the page to its queue to be crawled again.

• A request does not guarantee that the page will appear on Google.
• It can take anything from a few days to a few weeks.
• There is a daily limit per property. Requesting more often does not make it faster.
• Have you changed lots of pages? Then your sitemap is the better route (see Submitting your sitemap).
• If the live test finds that the page cannot be indexed, you cannot request indexing. Fix the cause first.

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