Does a sitemap guarantee indexing?
No. A sitemap helps discovery but does not override access controls, canonicalization, duplication, quality evaluation, or unsupported content.
WORKFLOW / INDEXATION DIAGNOSIS
Find what blocks discovery and indexing.
A missing search result can begin with discovery, fetching, rendering, canonicalization, or quality. Check those stages in order before repeatedly submitting the same URL.
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Check whether crawlers can reach the page.
Confirm the exact URL is linked, listed where appropriate, publicly fetchable, and not blocked by authentication or crawler directives.
- Return a genuine 200 response for the intended page.
- Inspect robots.txt and page-level meta or X-Robots-Tag directives.
- Make important URLs reachable through ordinary HTML links.
- Keep current canonical URLs in a fetchable XML sitemap.
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Check which URL search engines may select.
An accessible page can still be consolidated with another URL or omitted when its content is duplicative, empty, error-like, or provides little standalone value.
- Use a consistent, indexable canonical destination.
- Remove conflicting redirect, sitemap, internal-link, and canonical signals.
- Inspect the Google-selected canonical and rendered page in Search Console.
- Improve the page itself before requesting another crawl.
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Choose the signal you need.
FAQ /
Operational detail.
Can NerdTools confirm Google indexing?
NerdTools can inspect public signals. Your verified Search Console property is the authoritative place to inspect Google crawling, rendering, canonical selection, and indexing status.
Should I keep requesting indexing?
Fix the underlying issue first. Repeated submission does not make a blocked, duplicate, inaccessible, or low-value page eligible.