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Search Inspector

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Check a website the way a search engine reads it: page titles, descriptions, headings, duplicate pages, robots rules, the sitemap and what stops pages being found. You get a score and a list of fixes, most important first. Prove the site is yours to check every page.

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Join free to use the search Inspector, 2 whole sites a month, plus 10 first-page checks a day. Members also get every other tool, notes inside my reviews and price alerts.

Only public pages are read, the way a search engine reads them. Reports are deleted after 7 days.

Example report

brightwell.co.uk

82
Good, with a few fixesTwo pages share a title, and 6 pictures have no description.
✓Titles56 of 58
!Duplicate titles2
✓Descriptionsall set
!Picture text6 missing
✓Sitemap58 pages
✓Robots rulesopen

What it checks

What Google sees

Titles, descriptions, headings and the text search engines and AI assistants read on each page.

What stops it being found

Robots rules, noindex tags, canonical links, the sitemap and pages nothing links to.

Fixes in order

Every problem ranked by how much it matters, with the pages it affects.

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