Why Your Pages Aren't on Google: Sitemap, Robots & Noindex | The Checkbox That Can Hide Your Site

Описание: Your best page can sit completely invisible to Google while looking perfectly fine to you. That is what technical SEO is for.

This is Episode 4 of the SEO Basics Series, and it opens the technical pillar with the part that decides whether your pages exist in search at all. I walk through crawling and indexing, how to check any page in Google Search Console, the one WordPress checkbox that can remove an entire website from Google, and the four crawl controls that quietly decide what gets found.

Part of the free SEO in Action series. Practical, no jargon, no shortcuts.

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⏱️ WHAT'S COVERED:

0:00 — Why technical SEO is different from everything before it
0:30 — The plumbing of your website, and the three episodes ahead
1:00 — Crawling and indexing: two steps worth keeping separate
1:30 — Google Search Console and the URL Inspection tool
2:00 — The WordPress checkbox that hides your entire site
2:30 — Your sitemap: what it does and how to submit it
3:00 — robots.txt, and how one line can block everything
3:30 — The noindex tag: right place and wrong place
4:00 — Canonical tags and duplicate versions of the same page
4:30 — What's coming in Episode 5

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📘 THE BOOK:

SEO in Action: Foundations to Measurable Growth — the complete four-pillar system, with checklists, real examples and step-by-step guidance for everything covered in this series.

→ Get it from $2.99: yourseoebook.com/product/seo-in-action/

🤖 The Claude SEO Prompts Cheat Book has ready-to-use prompts for technical audits, robots and canonical checks, and more.

→ yourseoebook.com/product/claude-seo-prompts-cheat-book/

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🛠️ FREE TOOLS:

→ Free SEO Page Audit (scores your page on technical signals, meta tags, headings and more): yourseoebook.com/free-seo-page-audit-and-score/
→ 14-Day SEO Action Plan: yourseoebook.com/14-day-seo-action-plan/
→ Free SEO Test (28 questions across all 4 pillars): yourseoebook.com/free-seo-test/

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📺 WATCH THE FULL SERIES:

→ Episode 1 — How SEO Actually Works: [link]
→ Episode 2 — Keywords, Intent and Ranking Reality: [link]
→ Episode 3.1 — Meta Titles, Descriptions and Headings: [link]
→ Episode 3.2 — Content, Links, Images and Full Checklist: [link]
→ Episode 5 — Speed and Core Web Vitals: [link]

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👋 ABOUT MARIANA YAMAKAWA

Digital Marketing and SEO Specialist. I write and teach practical SEO for marketers, business owners, content creators and freelancers who want real results without the overwhelm.

→ yourseoebook.com

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