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Indexation Check skill

The playbook Moonrank's SEO Agent uses to check nine things per URL — status, blocking directives, sitemap, internal links, content depth — and report the causes of missing pages, not just the symptoms.

Download the methodology, see how the agent separates cause from status, or run it live inside the SEO Agent.

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Category
SEO
Agent
SEO Agent
Format
indexation-check.md
Price
Free to download

The skill file

indexation-check.md
---
name: indexation-check
description: Audit whether a site's pages are actually indexable and indexed, separating technical causes from observed status, and never confusing "not indexed" with "not testable".
owner: Moonrank SEO Agent
---

# Indexation Check
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About this skill

What is the Indexation Check skill?

The Indexation Check skill is how Moonrank's SEO Agent answers the question that comes before every content decision: can Google actually index this page? It checks status codes, robots directives, noindex tags in both the HTML and the response headers, sitemap coverage and freshness, inbound internal links, and content depth — then reports what is broken and why.

Its discipline is the separation of cause and status. An audit that only reads status says "200 OK" about a page carrying an accidental noindex. It also never records an untestable URL as an unindexed one, because those two findings lead to opposite decisions.

It's written as a SKILL.md, a plain-language instruction format that people and AI agents can both follow. Read it to run your own audit, hand it to a developer as a brief, or let the SEO Agent run it against your workspace.

Example

See it in action

You ask

“Traffic dropped last month and the content hasn't changed. What happened?”

Agent does

Three pages carry a noindex that wasn't there in your last audit — including /pricing, which was your second-highest entry page. Two more return 301 chains through http before landing on https. Nine articles have zero inbound internal links, so nothing on the site points at them. The noindex on /pricing is the whole drop; the rest is debt worth clearing after.

How it works

From input to fix list

  1. 1

    You point at the pages

    A sitemap, a URL list, or the articles already published in your workspace.

  2. 2

    Moonrank checks the causes

    Status and redirects, robots.txt, noindex in HTML and headers, sitemap coverage, inbound links, content depth.

  3. 3

    It reads the observed status

    What Search Console reports per URL — with untestable kept strictly apart from unindexed.

  4. 4

    It reports critical issues first

    A noindex on a money page leads the report; stale sitemap dates come later.

What's included

Everything it checks

Status and redirect chains

Final status per URL, plus systematic redirects worth removing.

Blocking directives

robots.txt rules and noindex in both the meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header.

Sitemap coverage and freshness

Missing entries, orphan entries, and lastmod dates older than six months.

Orphan page detection

Inbound internal link counts per URL, so pages nothing points at are named.

Thin content flags

Word counts on the main content, with a threshold that suits atomic pages.

An honest limits section

Everything the audit could not test, and why, rather than a confident blank.

Use cases

When to reach for it

  • Explain a traffic drop that the content doesn't explain.
  • Check a site's foundation before a redesign or migration goes live.
  • Find the pages nothing on your own site links to.
  • Audit a prospect's site before a sales call.
  • Verify the base is sound before scaling a programmatic project.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

It's the SEO methodology Moonrank's SEO Agent follows — written out step by step, so you can read exactly how the work gets done rather than trusting a black box.

A plain-language instruction file that both people and AI agents can follow. Open it in any editor, paste it into Claude or ChatGPT, or drop it into an agent framework that reads skill files.

Yes. Every skill file is free with a Moonrank account — we ask for an email, not a credit card. Running the skill continuously against your site is what the paid product does.

Absolutely. The file is yours to adapt. Hand it to your team as a standard, run it manually, or point your own agent at it. Nothing in it depends on our platform.

The SEO Agent runs this methodology against your site on a schedule, prioritizes what it finds, and ships copy-ready fixes — no manual runs, no downloads to manage.

Related skills

Pair it with these skills

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Technical SEO

Find and fix what stops Google crawling, rendering, and indexing your site — grouped by root cause.

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Core Web Vitals

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Find out what AI says about your brand.