A crawl health routine you can actually keep

Review what changed first

Start with the publishing calendar and the deployment log. Which pages were added, moved, or removed? Pick the changes most likely to affect visitors, then compare them with your sitemap inventory.

A useful weekly review produces decisions, not just a larger spreadsheet. Keep a short queue with an owner for every issue. A routine that your team can finish is more useful than a report nobody has time to read.

Check the evidence in layers

First check whether your own connection and sync operations completed. Then review page access and engine observations. This order helps avoid treating a failed integration as evidence that a page has a search problem.

When investigating Google, remember that URL Inspection can show indexed information and a separate live test. Label which observation you saved. A page may have changed since the engine last saw it.

• Sync the sitemap and review unexpected URL changes.
• Check failed connection or submission responses.
• Inspect a small sample of important changed pages.
• Assign each confirmed issue to an owner.
• Save the next review date and the evidence you expect to compare.

Close the loop on a single issue

Choose one concrete problem, record the proposed fix, and verify it after deployment. Keep unresolved issues in the next review with their evidence intact. Avoid reopening the same investigation from scratch every week.

GetIndexed brings your inventory and supported engine connections into one workspace. Use it to support the routine, while keeping the final indexing decision with the search engine. A reliable review should tell you what happened and what to do next.

Go to the source

For provider requirements and current technical details, start with the official documentation.

• Google Search Console: URL Inspection
• Google: crawlers and fetchers overview