Verifying pages with the Search Console URL inspection tool

All of the guides to the webmaster tools included in Google Search Console lead us today in deepening the topic of how to use the Url Inspection Tool, that allows to discover the page status in the Google Index, perform live tests, ask to the search engine to scan a specific page and so much more.

Guide to the use of the Url Inspection Tool

Our companion and guide in the discovery of this tool is, as always, Daniel Waisberg with the series Google Search Console Training on YouTube, now at its fifth episode: right after the coverage of general topics such as the verification of site ownership  and others more technical like the Performance Report, the Search Advocate now offers us some practical advice on the URL Inspection tool that, as previously mentioned, is very useful to acquire info on the version of a specific page indexed by Google and, in particular, on AMP errors or structured data and indexing issues.

Le funzioni del tool della Search Console

To understand why the page does not appear on Research

According to the Googler, this is one of the “most important debugging tools to help you understand why your page might not be appearing the way you expect in search results”. In order to read the detailed info of the Google Index correlated to a URL within our property all it takes is to launch the tool through one of the methods available – the top bar in the navigational menu, the side navigational box or the magnifying glass next to each Url in the other Search Console sections – and immediately find out the current indexing status of the monitored resource.

To get results, we need to enter the complete Url of the page and to always keep in mind that:

  • The tool only works with Web pages and only show results for Web research.