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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Getting Started with Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools: Verification, URL Inspection and Core Reports
In Search Console a Domain property is verified through DNS and covers all subdomains and protocols; a URL-prefix property sees only the prefix you enter, and the verification token must stay in place. We cover the URL Inspection fields, the Page indexing and Performance reports, importing into Bing Webmaster Tools and a first-week checklist for mertozen.com.
"Why Isn't My Page Indexed?" Diagnosing Indexing Problems Step by Step
For a page that isn't indexed, ask in order: does Google know the URL, does robots.txt allow it, does it return 200, is there a noindex, does the canonical point to itself, is the content real; the first no is where the problem is. We cover the diagnosis tree, a .NET 10 check tool that runs locally, the robots.txt and noindex conflict, and the Crawled/Discovered – currently not indexed states.