Practical notes on getting pages and backlinks indexed in Google.
when are notion public pages indexed? After Share → Publish plus the search-engine indexing toggle — a setting, not a Google listing.
Track google rankings by city for a local service when the same query returns different organic results in two towns. Set one city per project and compare like with like.
Is my site indexed on Bing? A four-step check: crawl access, sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools, index reports and a full URL list test.
Turn a URL list into valid sitemap files: Google's 50,000-URL and 50 MB limits, sitemap index rules, and the checks to run before and after submission.
"URL is on Google but has issues" means the page is indexed but an enhancement failed. Where the warning hides in the report and how to clear it.
A practical field guide to 6 methods for verifying backlink indexation — from site: operator to bulk tools and Search Console.
Why a PDF outranks its landing page, and how to use canonical headers, internal links, and X-Robots-Tag to guide Google toward the preferred URL.
What Discovered – currently not indexed means for donor pages, which checks separate crawl delays from quality refusals, and what actually moves links.
Realistic waiting windows for backlink pages stuck in Discovered – currently not indexed, what changes the queue, and the 14-day decision rule for donors.
Custom Search JSON API shuts down on January 1, 2027. A five-step migration for scripts that check Google indexing with site: queries, with a drop-in bulk API replacement.
A link Google has not crawled does not exist for ranking. How to check the donor page and what to do if it is missing from the index.