Does CrawlVitals guarantee Google indexing?
No. It diagnoses whether pages are technically ready, helps prioritize fixes, and supports submission/discovery workflows. Search engines still decide what to index.
FAQ
Clear answers before setup.
CrawlVitals is designed for practical search and AI visibility work: find blockers, understand readiness, generate fixes, and monitor what changes.
Why only 5 free URLs?
Five URLs are enough to show whether the site has obvious blockers and to demonstrate the report. Paid plans can scan more URLs and monitor changes over time.
What does “index-ready” mean?
It means the sampled page returned a good response and did not show obvious blockers such as noindex, canonical problems, very thin HTML, severe JavaScript risk, or weak crawl signals.
What is GEO?
GEO means generative engine optimization: making content easier for AI answer systems to understand, summarize, and cite. CrawlVitals checks entity clarity, answerable content, source signals, structured data, and trust signals.
What is agent readiness?
Agent readiness checks whether a site exposes clean machine-readable signals such as semantic HTML, structured data, crawler policy, visible initial content, and llms.txt.
Can this fix my site automatically?
The scanner does not directly rewrite your site. It generates prioritized issues and a copy-ready AI fix prompt you can paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, or your developer workflow.
Why connect Google Search Console?
Search Console is the cleanest way to inspect URLs you own, monitor indexing states, and see whether pages are discovered, crawled, indexed, excluded, or canonicalized.
Why include Bing and IndexNow?
Bing and IndexNow provide legitimate URL notification workflows. They help search engines discover new, updated, or deleted URLs faster, but they still do not guarantee indexing or ranking.
Who is this for?
Programmatic SEO sites, ecommerce stores, directories, SaaS landing-page libraries, agencies, content sites, and anyone publishing many pages that need indexability monitoring.
Can I give someone free access?
Yes. Admins can create coupon codes for users to redeem or grant a comp plan directly to a workspace. This is useful for beta users, friends, agencies, and customer trials.
Does CrawlVitals include IndexNow?
Yes. It can generate an IndexNow key, verify the key file on the customer's domain, submit index-ready URLs, and log the response. The WordPress plugin can serve the key file automatically.
Can it show how long indexing took?
Yes, after Search Console is connected. CrawlVitals records when URLs are submitted and when Search Console first reports them as indexed, then calculates time-to-index.
Does the scanner improve over time?
Yes. CrawlVitals includes a signal rules library so SEO, GEO, AI search, IndexNow, and agent-readiness rules can be updated as new standards and search behavior change.
Does the research watcher update automatically?
Yes for high-trust sources that are explicitly marked as safe to auto-apply. Medium and low-trust sources create review proposals instead of silently changing scanner behavior.
Are there free tools?
Yes. CrawlVitals includes free tools for index readiness, metadata, schema, robots.txt, sitemaps, headers, redirects, llms.txt, hreflang, UTM links, and bulk URL review.
What is Standard Push?
Standard Push audits URLs, rejects blocked pages, submits eligible owned URLs through supported channels, and monitors status on a normal cadence.
What is Priority Push?
Priority Push is stricter and faster: cleaner eligibility requirements, immediate push attempts, shorter recheck cadence, and stalled-URL diagnostics. It is not a fixed-time indexing guarantee.
Can CrawlVitals force third-party backlinks to index?
No. Backlink Visibility Monitor checks public crawlability, noindex, canonical, link presence, and index-status signals. It does not bypass ownership or platform controls.