Who finds out on his own

Joyuseoto57

Even if the page is active and functioning properly (to visitors), the code is telling the page that it no longer exists here (to quote the powerful) and will delete it accordingly. Again, it was worth checking, so I ran it through the header inspection tool. Verdict: Yards. No problem (pun totally intended it's a good thing I'm not a comedian) Okay, so now what? Testing the Page in Webmaster Tools Now it’s time to ask the big boss directly: What did you make of this page that was, oh, powerful? To do this, go to Webmaster Tools, click on the site in question and select from the side menu.

You should see a screen like this: Google Grab Screenshot Just drop the affected pages into moible number data it (leave it blank if it's the homepage) and see what it says about them. Of course, if it is a failure, then why is it failing? It might also help to give you an idea of ​​what might be going wrong. Ask Google to (re)index the page. After doing the above, if the page can be fetched successfully, you will get this option: Google Grab Screenshot. I decided to do this: Ask Google (re)submits the page to its index. At this point I'm sure I've done everything I can to investigate and subsequently rectify the situation and now it's time to break the news I mean.



Thought it would be best to tell the client after doing all of the above (except checking, which I actually did later), even though the page might be restored almost immediately (which it did in the end, a lot prettier). Also, I want to be seen as proactive, not passive. I want to be the one who tells him, rather than him being the one and asks me about it. Here is the email I sent: Hi Name removed, I just wanted to bring something to your attention. I'm doing a daily ranking check just to see how your site is doing on daily basis and I noticed that your homepage has disappeared from . Usually this is accidental de-indexing or.