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Technical SEO guide

Crawlable, indexable, discoverable, and canonical do not mean the same thing.

Review whether a crawler can request the URL, what response and directives it receives, whether links or sitemaps expose the page, and which URL the site asks search engines to treat as primary. A page can have a different answer for each question.

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Collect evidence
Review meaning
Approve action
Verify output
Permissions depend on the person's account role, ownership of the site, the connected provider, and the change being requested.

What to look for

Get the answer without losing sight of where it came from.

01

Can a crawler reach it?

Review robots.txt, authentication, status codes, timeouts, and resource requirements that affect fetching.

02

What does the page say about indexing?

Inspect meta and header directives beside the canonical and response behavior.

03

How would a crawler find it?

Compare internal links, sitemaps, backlinks, and other known sources to find isolated or contradictory pages.

Put the guide to work

Understand the issue, check the page, and choose the next step.

The strongest audits leave room for context. Confirm what happened, rule out the common false positives, decide who owns the fix, and check the page again afterward.

Open the full check library
01

Can a crawler reach it?

Review robots.txt, authentication, status codes, timeouts, and resource requirements that affect fetching.

02

What does the page say about indexing?

Inspect meta and header directives beside the canonical and response behavior.

03

How would a crawler find it?

Compare internal links, sitemaps, backlinks, and other known sources to find isolated or contradictory pages.

From finding to follow-up

See where the work stands—and what still needs to happen.

  1. 01Found

    Netrix records the page and the issue it found.

  2. 02Reviewed

    Someone checks the finding in context.

  3. 03Approved

    The right person chooses what should change.

  4. 04Applied

    A supported connection accepts the change.

  5. 05Checked

    Netrix reads the public page again.

  6. 06Shared

    The report summarizes the audit and fixes currently marked applied.

A few things worth knowing

Netrix can prepare the work. Your team still makes the call.

  1. 01
    Nothing publishes itself

    AI drafts and supported SEO changes wait for an authorized person to act.

  2. 02
    A write is not proof

    Netrix records when a provider accepts a change, then checks the public page separately. If it cannot read the page, the result stays unknown.

  3. 03
    Limits belong in the open

    When a feature depends on another provider or stops short of a complete workflow, the page should say so.

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