Common symptoms
- Page does not appear in search
- Submitted URL remains undiscovered
- Canonical points elsewhere
- Sitemap and page disagree
- Important page has no internal links
Website Not Indexing? Check Crawlability and Canonical Signals
A page may fail to index because crawlers cannot reach it, are told not to index it, see a conflicting canonical, encounter a non-200 response, or find weak/duplicate page signals. Genesis separates technical discovery readiness from claims about search-engine decisions.
Possible causes
- Robots or noindex directive
- Canonical conflict
- Broken sitemap or status code
- Orphan page
- Duplicate or low-value page structure
Diagnose the exact failure before choosing a repair.
Genesis separates the visible symptom from the underlying technical cause. Run the supported diagnostic first, review the evidence, and then use a matching repair only when the failure is actually verified.
- Platform scope
- Public websites
- Category
- SEO & indexing
- Last updated
- 2026-09-12
Next step
Start with a free diagnostic. If Genesis verifies a problem and a compatible treatment exists, it will route you to the relevant Code Store product or repair path.
Run a Website Diagnostic