A practical starting point
Work through these checks in order. Use the results to decide what needs to change in your own workflow.
- Inspect the raw HTML for the main heading, useful content and canonical.
- Open the page with its scripts running and compare the content and links.
- Use URL inspection where available to identify rendering or resource errors.
A blog that fetches every article only after a button click needs a crawlable route for each article.
A mistake to avoid
Do not assume that a successful homepage render proves every template works.
How to check progress
Track rendering differences across homepage, service, category and article templates.
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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