A practical starting point
Work through these checks in order. Use the results to decide what needs to change in your own workflow.
- Test status, canonical, robots instructions and main heading on representative routes.
- Check sitemap entries and important internal links after the release.
- Record the deployed version, test evidence and rollback location.
A new article template should be checked on one short article, one long article and a category page.
A mistake to avoid
Do not rely solely on a homepage check when other templates changed.
How to check progress
Track issues introduced per release and the time needed to identify their source.
Your action checklist
Use this checklist while reviewing your own setup. Checkmarks are temporary and stay in this open page.
Need the wider workflow?
This quick note covers one decision. For a worked example, decision table and a fuller implementation workflow, read Diagnosing a page that Google has not indexed.
Further reading
Official background resources for this topic. The workflow above is general guidance, not a guarantee of a particular result.
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