Robots, sitemap & canonical review.

What to verify

The website health audit checks these public signals together. Search Console or Bing data is still needed to learn what each engine actually selected.

1. Important pages return a useful 200 response and do not carry an unintended noindex.
2. Every indexable template declares the intended canonical URL.
3. Robots rules do not block resources or URLs that need to be inspected.
4. Sitemaps contain canonical, indexable URLs and exclude redirects, errors and private pages.

How to use this guide

1. Run the free website audit tool. It checks up to five public pages on one website plus its robots and sitemap endpoints, and the result stays in your short-lived session.
2. Verify the finding with owner-controlled data where it exists, such as Search Console, Bing or Chrome UX Report (CrUX) field data. The audit does not submit pages to Google or change the website.
3. Fix the agreed issue, then run the same check again. Mark an issue verified only when it disappears from new evidence.

For the human checks that HTML alone cannot prove, use the website audit checklist.