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Is your site invisible to Google?

Five two-minute checks that reveal whether Google, and the AI crawlers reading the web for it, can actually see your site.

The 5 checks

  1. 01The view-source test
  2. 02The Googlebot render test
  3. 03The share test
  4. 04The URL test
  5. 05The Google reality check

Check 01 / 05

01The view-source test

Why it matters: if your text isn't in the raw HTML, search and AI crawlers may never read it.

  1. Open your site in Chrome.
  2. Press Ctrl+U (Mac: Cmd+Option+U).
  3. Press Ctrl+F and search for a sentence from your homepage.

Did you find your actual text in the HTML?

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02The Googlebot render test

Why it matters: Googlebot has to render your page like a browser before it can index what's on it.

  1. Open Google's free Rich Results Test at search.google.com/test/rich-results.
  2. Paste your URL and run it.
  3. Click "View tested page."
  4. Search the rendered HTML for your homepage text.

Already have Search Console? URL Inspection → Test Live URL does the same job.

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Does your real content appear in what Googlebot rendered?

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03The share test

Why it matters: broken previews cost clicks and trust before anyone lands on your site.

  1. Send your URL to yourself on WhatsApp, or paste it into Slack, Discord, or LinkedIn's post composer.
  2. Look at the preview card that appears.

Did a real preview appear: your title, description, and image?

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04The URL test

Why it matters: how your URLs are structured determines whether Google sees one page or many.

  1. Click through three or four pages of your site.
  2. Watch the address bar as you navigate.

Are your URLs clean paths like yoursite.com/pricing (no #, no ?page=)?

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05The Google reality check

Why it matters: indexing is the gate. Nothing ranks that hasn't gotten through it.

  1. Search Google for site:yourdomain.com.
  2. Compare the result count to your real page count.

Already have Search Console? Indexing → Pages shows your exact indexed count. The site: search is only an estimate.

Do roughly all of your pages show up, with sensible titles?

Your results

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