Why it matters
Indexing problems are easy to miss because nothing looks broken to a visitor. A stray noindex tag, a sitemap listing old URLs, or a robots.txt rule written for a staging site can quietly keep important pages out of search for months. Structure matters here too: a page buried five clicks deep, with no other page linking to it, gets crawled less often and carries less weight.
Signs you need this
- Pages you’ve published don’t show up when you search for them by name
- Search Console reports pages as “Crawled – currently not indexed” or “Excluded”
- Old, duplicate or test URLs appear in search instead of the right pages
- Important pages are hard to reach from the homepage or menu
What we do
Find what’s excluded
We go through Search Console’s indexing reports and crawl the site ourselves to list every page that’s blocked, excluded or duplicated.
Fix the cause
We correct robots.txt rules, noindex tags and canonical tags, and remove or redirect pages that shouldn’t be indexed.
Clean up the sitemap
We rebuild your XML sitemap so it lists only live, indexable pages, and submit it.
Shorten the path to key pages
Menus, breadcrumbs and links inside your content are updated so the pages that bring in business sit within a few clicks of the homepage.
How we check it worked
We follow the indexing reports in Search Console until the fixed pages move to “Indexed”, and confirm they appear for searches on their own titles.
Common questions
How long does it take for a page to get indexed?
Anything from a few days to a few weeks. Requesting indexing and linking to the page from other pages on your site both help.
Should every page on my site be indexed?
No. Login pages, internal search results, thank-you pages and thin duplicates are usually better kept out, so search engines focus on the pages that matter.
Will changing URLs hurt my rankings?
It can if it’s done carelessly. With redirects in place and internal links updated, any dip is usually short.
How this page looks on Google
Crawling, indexing and site structure | seekandsprout
Crawling and indexing fixes make sure search engines can find every page you want to rank, and skip the ones you don’t.
The title and description we wrote for search engines, as they appear in results.