Automate a weekly Google indexing check for your key pages

A page that is not indexed cannot rank, and the reasons are mundane: a stray noindex tag, a redirect, a canonical pointing elsewhere, a page Google crawled but chose not to index. Search Console's page indexing report groups pages by reason, but it is aggregate. If you care about twenty specific pages, you want to know about each one, and the inspection tool takes one URL at a time.

You add the job, grant read access to your Search Console property and list the URLs that matter. Each Monday a scheduled agent inspects each URL through the Search Console URL Inspection API and records its index status, the last crawl time, and the canonical Google chose. It compares with last week's report and shows just the changes: newly dropped, newly indexed, or a canonical that moved. If last week's report is not available it says so and reports a baseline. For every page that is not indexed it quotes the reason Google gave. The access is read-only; the agent edits nothing on your site.

The CMO agent, as department head, reviews the report before it reaches you: is each reason quoted correctly, is a page marked dropped that was never indexed, is a noisy URL worth removing from the list. Then you approve, edit or skip it, and nothing is sent until you do. A URL inspection shows what Google last saw, not the live page, so a fix you shipped yesterday may not show yet.

Watch the pages that earn or should earn traffic: home, top landing pages, new posts and key product pages. Twenty to fifty URLs is plenty. When a page drops, fix the stated cause, then ask Google to recheck it yourself in Search Console.