seowatcher Index status
Google's answer for each of your pages: is it in search, if not why, and when it last visited. You can ask at most 2,000 queries a day.
This tab shows which of your pages Google has put into search.
The site audit tells you a page can be opened, but not whether Google has added it to its index (Google's list of pages). The Index status tab asks Google and saves the answer on this computer. A page is asked about again only when its answer has gone stale. This matters because Google allows 2,000 questions a day per property (your site's record in Search Console), and the app and your assistant share that allowance.
What is on the screen
The "What has Google done with these pages?" chart. This donut chart splits the crawled pages into three groups:
- On Google: can appear in search.
- Not indexed: Google looked at the page but did not add it.
- Awaiting an answer: not asked yet, or no answer could be received.
Summary boxes. They show how many pages were asked about, how many are in the index, how many are not and how many are waiting. The "Pages where Google chose a different canonical" box counts pages where Google chose a different address from the canonical you declared (the tag that names a page's main address). The "Not yet checked in this audit" box shows how many pages are left to ask about.
The "Check status on Google" button. Each press asks about at most 25 pages, starting with those that have gone longest without an answer. When the daily limit is used up, the warning "Google's daily limit of 2,000 URLs is used up" appears, with the number of pages still waiting. The button is disabled if Search Console is not connected or if the audited domain is outside the connected property.
Table. Columns: Page, Status, Reason, Google-selected canonical, Google's last crawl. The status cell shows "Google'da", "Not checked", "No answer", "Error", or the Turkish version of Google's own status. The app translates 18 statuses into Turkish. Examples:
- "Discovered - currently not indexed"
- "Excluded by 'noindex' tag" (the page is kept out of search)
- "Blocked by robots.txt" (robots.txt is the file that tells Google which pages it may visit)
- "Soft 404" (the page exists but Google treats it as empty)
- "URL is unknown to Google"
You can download the table as CSV.
How to use it
- When the audit finishes, open the tab. If the "Awaiting an answer" number is high, press Check status on Google. Each press covers 25 more pages, so a few presses are enough for a small site.
- Look at the "Not indexed" group first. The Reason column gives Google's reason, which often tells you what to do. If it says "Blocked by robots.txt", remove the block. If it says "Excluded by 'noindex' tag", remove the tag. If it says "Discovered - currently not indexed", waiting is usually enough.
- Add important pages that say "Google bu adresi bilmiyor" to your sitemap and submit the sitemap to Search Console. For the three or four most important pages, also click "Dizine eklenmesini iste" (Request indexing) by hand in Search Console.
- If the "Pages where Google chose a different canonical" box is not zero, look at the Google-selected canonical column. Google disagrees with the main address you declared. Either correct yours or make the address Google chose the main one.
- Press again after a few days. Only stale answers are asked again, so your quota is not wasted.
How the numbers are calculated
If Google says "indexed", the page counts as "On Google". If it says "not indexed" or "unknown", the page counts as "Not indexed". If there is no answer, the page is "Awaiting an answer".
An answer is treated as stale after a set time and is asked about again: 14 days for a page in the index, 3 days for a page not in the index or an answer with an error. A page that has never been asked about is always eligible. The daily limit is calculated from the number of questions in the last 24 hours. The app counts only its own questions; queries you run by hand in Search Console are not in this counter, but they do count against Google's real limit.
A canonical mismatch means the address Google chose differs from the one you declared, even by a trailing slash.
If Google's last crawl is older than 90 days, the audit reports the problem "Google hasn't crawled this page in a long time". Stale answers are collected into a single problem, "Google's answers for some pages are out of date".
Frequently asked questions
Why is the button disabled? There are three possible reasons: Search Console is not connected, there are no pages left to ask about, or the audited domain is outside the connected property (for example, because you audited another site).
What does the 2,000 limit apply to? The property. Two projects connected to the same property, and your assistant, spend from the same pool.
What should I do for a page that says "Discovered - currently not indexed"? Usually nothing. On new sites Google can leave pages waiting for weeks. Linking to the page from pages that Google crawls often speeds it up.
Does this tab tell Google about new pages? No, it only asks. To tell Google about a page, use the sitemap and "Dizine eklenmesini iste" in Search Console.
Limits
The answers are only as good as what Google returns, and Google can leave some fields empty. You cannot go over 2,000 questions a day, so covering a 10,000-page site takes five days. The tab asks only about crawled pages; addresses that were not part of the audit do not appear in the list.