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Indexability is the ability of a page to be stored in Google's search index and potentially appear in search results. A page must be crawlable (accessible to Googlebot) and indexable (not blocked by noindex, canonical pointing elsewhere, or HTTP errors) to rank.
Common indexability issues include noindex tags accidentally applied in staging environments and pushed to production, orphan pages not linked from anywhere on the site, soft 404s that return a 200 status but show "page not found" content, and canonical tags pointing to incorrect URLs.
Monitoring index coverage in Google Search Console is the primary way to identify indexability problems. The Coverage report shows indexed pages, excluded pages, and the reasons for exclusion.
Example
A site migrated from HTTP to HTTPS but left noindex tags on the HTTPS pages. All 500 pages are technically crawlable but none will appear in search results until the noindex tags are removed.
Apply this in practice
Definitions are step one.
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