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Indexing
Technology exam: Accessibility for search engines
Before a page can rank, it must be found, crawled and indexed. We check technical accessibility for search engines — the layer under SEO where silent errors are the most expensive.
- Retrieval · redirects · robots.txt · sitemapScope and rule set are stated in the report, countable.
- Human reviewClear decisions in the gold standard: a person judges disputed cases.
- TraceableEvery finding with reasoning, source and location.
- Publicly verifiableVia audit ID, QR code and an open verification page.
What is checked in detail
- robots.txt: achievable, syntactically meaningful, no accidental locks
- XML Sitemap: present, accessible, consistent with the real pages
- Canon addresses and forwarding chains
- Checked status codes (dead links, soft 404, redirect loops)
- Meta-robots and indexability per page
How your partial seal comes about
- Prove the domainDNS TXT record or file in the .well-known path.
- Choose the scopeBy page tier, up to 1,000 pages.
- Automated auditEverything technically decidable is measured.
- Auditor judgementA person judges disputed cases, in the gold standard.
- Partial sealFrom 90 of 100 points in this audit area.
The result: a verifiable partial seal
If your website reaches the target in this audit area, you receive a partial seal with its own audit ID and a public verification page with result, audit date and validity. How the audit proceeds is described in the audit procedure, the conditions under pricing.
Topics in detail
10 pages along the guidelines of the rule set, each with the associated checkpoints and its own questions.
- noindex prüfen: die häufigste Ursache für unsichtbare Seiten
- HTTP-Statuscodes: antwortet die Seite überhaupt mit 200?
- Weiterleitungen: jeder Sprung kostet
- Canonical im Indexierungs-Prüfbereich: welche Adresse gilt
- meta-refresh und JavaScript-Weiterleitung: die schlechteren Umleitungen
- Inhalt im Erst-HTML: was ohne JavaScript ankommt
- Ladeschichten, die nie verschwinden: wenn der Body unsichtbar bleibt
- Bot gleich Mensch: warum Suchmaschinen dasselbe sehen müssen
- robots.txt und Sitemap: die zwei Dateien, die den Zugang steuern
- Meine Seite ist nicht auffindbar — in welcher Reihenfolge suche ich?
What a result looks like
Every criterion receives exactly one of three judgements. A criterion is never considered met just because the measurement found nothing.
- Met: demonstrably, with evidence
- Still open: awaits an auditor judgement
- Still to be met: location, rule and remedy named
A partial seal is issued from 90 of 100 points in this audit area.
Our own website currently reaches 100 of 100.
Good to know
- One side can be perfect and still locked out – that stands out here.
- Forwarding chains and status codes are fully logged.
