Technical SEO
Crawling & Indexing Documentation
by Google Search Central
This structured collection is aimed at the moment a site stops behaving as expected: pages are not indexed, duplicates appear, Googlebot receives the wrong response, or a JavaScript application renders incomplete content. It turns Google's crawling and indexing model into an operational debugging checklist.
Free
Price
Self-paced · 4-8 hours
Time investment
Intermediate
Level
What you'll learn
- How crawl discovery and scheduling work
- How robots.txt, noindex, canonicals, and sitemaps interact
- How to reason about duplicate and alternate URLs
- How to troubleshoot indexing with Search Console
Prerequisites
Basic HTML and HTTP concepts recommended. No paid tool is required.
Who it's for
Technical SEOs, engineers, and developers maintaining large, international, or JavaScript-rendered sites.
Topics covered
CrawlingIndexingRobots.txtSitemaps
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This course is hosted and delivered entirely by Google Search Central — enrollment happens on their site.
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