Diagnose why Google is not indexing your site with AI

Find the exact setting, tag, or file keeping your pages out of Google, in one read-only pass.

Difficulty Beginner

Time ~10 min

Tools run_wp_cli, rest_api, get_page_html

Prerequisites

A connected site. This is a read-only diagnosis, so no backup is needed.

The prompt

I published pages on my WordPress site but they are not showing up in Google. Run a read-only indexing diagnosis and do not change anything.

Check these and report each one, most serious first:
1. Search engine visibility: read the blog_public option. If it is 0, the site is discouraging search engines and is quietly adding a site-wide noindex.
2. The page I care about most is [page or post URL]. Read its head and tell me whether it carries a noindex or nofollow robots meta tag, and where that tag comes from (a per-post SEO setting or the site-wide switch).
3. robots.txt: show me the contents and flag any Disallow rule that blocks the pages I want indexed.
4. Sitemap: confirm the sitemap URL listed in robots.txt actually loads as valid XML and is not a 404.
5. Canonical tag: check the canonical on that page and tell me if it points to a different URL, which would hand indexing to another page.

Give me a short report: each blocker you found, how serious it is, and the exact setting or tag I need to change to fix it. List every check you ran so I can see what passed.

Already connected to WPVibe?

Skip the copy-paste. Just ask your AI for the “Diagnose why Google is not indexing your site with AI” recipe, or describe the task, and WPVibe runs these steps on your own site.

You published the pages weeks ago, you have checked Google a dozen times, and they still are not there. Search Console says “Discovered, currently not indexed” or shows nothing at all. The frustrating part is that the cause is almost never your writing. It is usually one hidden switch, tag, or file that quietly tells Google to stay away, and finding it means opening settings screens most site owners never touch.

This recipe runs a read-only diagnosis. Your AI checks the search engine visibility setting first, since a single “Discourage search engines” checkbox adds a site-wide noindex even when your SEO plugin’s robots.txt looks perfectly normal. Then it reads the page’s actual robots meta tag, your robots.txt rules, whether the sitemap in that file really loads or returns a 404, and the canonical tag that could be handing indexing to another URL. Nothing is changed. You get a report of what is blocking you, ordered by how much damage each issue does.

Paste the prompt below and name the page you care about most. Because it only reads, you can run it safely on a live site with no backup. When it hands back the report, you decide which setting to flip. The most common culprit by far is that visibility checkbox, so if your whole site is missing from Google, start there before you touch anything else.

Outcome

A plain-language report of every indexing blocker on your site, ordered by severity, with the exact fix for each.