Google URL Inspection Tool & New Search Console
Ever wonder how your website has been indexed on Google? Google recently launched a new tool, “URL inspection,” to provide these details and more tools to make searching more transparent.
Google confirmed on Twitter, its release of the URL inspection tool in the new Google Search Console, and it is now available to all users.
The URL Inspection tool will allow you to check a specific URL and provide information about Google's indexed version of it. The Information will include AMP errors, structured data errors, and indexing issues. It will show crawling data, any crawling or indexing errors and the canonical URL for the page.
However, note that this tool describes the most recently indexed version of a page, not the live version on the web. If a URL or page has changed or become unavailable since Google last saw it, you might have to use the Fetch as Google tool to test the current version of the page as Google would see it or use it to request a recrawl of the URL.
You also have to conform to Google's quality and security guidelines for actual appearance in Search results. According to Google, the URL Inspection tool doesn't take into account manual actions, content removals, or temporarily blocked URLs.
You can check if your URL is appearing by searching for your URL on Google; Your URL may be missing or unavailable but that will not stop it from being inspected and indexed, when that happens use this link in resolving it.
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