rawling is the process by which Google, Bing, and other search engines discover and understand your website. Indexing is the process by which search engines collect and store information about your website.
An easy way to check crawling and indexing issues is to use webmaster tools. Google Search Console, for example, is a free tool from Google that shows your site's performance in search results, helps uncover errors, and allows you to submit your site to Google.
If you haven't connected to Webmaster Tools yet, bulk lead check out our guide on adding a WordPress site to Google Search Console .
In Google Search Console, you can access the Pages report. Here you can see pages that are indexed and not indexed.
Next, you can scroll down to the Why Pages Are Not Indexed report.
Google Search Console shows you crawling and indexing errors on your website and which pages are affected. You can then fix these problems so that your web pages can appear in Google search results.
Why pages are not indexed
Additionally, you can also check indexing and crawling issues for individual URLs.
Simply enter the page link into the URL inspection tool above and Google Search Console will show you a report on whether the URL is indexed and can be found on Google.