# Check your site for SEO problems

> Ask your assistant to check a page's basic SEO, whether Google has indexed it, and which error pages visitors reach.

Small technical problems can keep a page out of Google or make it look poor in results. MeasureScale lets your assistant check one page at a time for common problems. It can also ask Google whether a page is indexed and find error pages that visitors reach.

## Questions to ask

### Check a page

- "Check the SEO of my homepage."
- "Does my chocolate cake recipe page have a good title and description?"
- "Is anything telling Google not to show my shop page?"

### Check Google's view

- "Is my new pricing page indexed in Google?"
- "Are my sitemaps in Search Console showing errors?"

### Find broken pages

- "Which 404 pages do visitors land on?"
- "Do several of my pages compete for the same search?"

## A good conversation

Here is an example of how a conversation can go.

1. You ask: "Check the SEO of my cake order page." The assistant fetches the page and checks its title, description, main heading and other basics. It lists each check as passed, a warning or a failure.
2. You ask: "Is that page in Google?" The assistant asks Google whether the page is indexed. **Indexed** means Google has stored the page and can show it in results.
3. You ask: "Which error pages do people reach?" The assistant lists pages whose title says "404", with how often visitors saw them.

## Reading the answer

- A failure means search engines cannot use the page or are told to skip it. A warning is a suggestion.
- The title and description length limits are common rules of thumb. They are not Google rules.
- The check reads the page as your server sends it. Content that scripts add later is not checked.
- The check covers one page per question. It does not crawl your whole site, and it does not check links or speed.
- Error pages are found by their title. A normal page that mentions "404" can show up too.

## Tips

- Give the full address of the page you want checked.
- Check your most important pages first, such as your homepage and best sellers.
- Google limits how many index checks a site can make each day. Ask about earlier checks to reuse their answers.
- If your error page title does not say "404", tell the assistant what it says, such as "Page not found".

## Read more

- [On-page audit and error pages](/methodology/on-page-audit/)
- [Ranking changes, paths, sitemaps and portfolio](/methodology/site-reports/)
- [Cannibalization](/methodology/cannibalization/)