Solo Mining Technical SEO QA: Canonical, OG, and Indexability Checklist

Publishing Is Only Half the Job

We've shipped pages that read great and still didn't show up in Search Console for two weeks, because something in the technical layer was quietly wrong — a canonical pointing somewhere it shouldn't, a robots signal fighting the sitemap. This is the pass we run on solo-mining pages roughly every week to catch that before it costs us indexing time.

Canonical and Robots Checks

• Every page has exactly one canonical URL, and it points to itself unless we deliberately meant otherwise.
• No revenue or strategic educational page has an accidental noindex sitting on it from a template default.
• Query and filter pages that could create duplicate content are controlled on purpose, not by accident.
• Robots directives and sitemap entries agree with each other — nothing listed in the sitemap that's also disallowed.

Open Graph and Social Snippet Checks

• OG title and description actually match the page's intent and the query cluster we're targeting, not a generic template string.
• There's a fallback image set for any page missing a featured image — an empty OG image tag just means Facebook or X grabs something random, or nothing.
• Twitter card metadata is filled in and matches the OG data, not left half-populated.
• The snippet text is specific to what a solo miner actually gets from the page, not boilerplate.

The Indexability Runbook

1. Check response status and rendered canonical for each priority URL — don't trust that it's fine just because it loads.
2. Confirm the URL is in the sitemap, and submit it manually in Search Console if it's newly published.
3. Add at least one internal link from a page that's already getting crawled regularly.
4. Recheck discovery status in Search Console after 3-7 days — Google doesn't usually move faster than that even when everything's clean.

A page can be technically perfect and still sit un-indexed for weeks if nothing on the site links to it.

Caveat we've learned the hard way: fixing the technical issues doesn't guarantee a fast re-crawl. We've had pages sit for over a week after a fix with zero visible movement, then jump into the index all at once. Patience is part of the process, not a sign something's still broken.

At the end of each pass, we log a short entry: URL, issue type, fix applied, expected outcome. Six months of that log is the closest thing we have to a QA baseline, and it's caught more than one repeat regression before it became a pattern.

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Tools We Actually Use for This

Nothing exotic: Search Console for coverage and index status, a quick view-source or rendering check for canonical and OG tags, and Google's Rich Results Test when a page carries structured data we want validated. None of this needs a paid crawler subscription to catch the common mistakes — it needs someone checking on a schedule instead of assuming a page is fine because it was fine when it launched.

The bug we catch most often, and it's a boring one: a canonical tag left pointing at a staging URL or an old slug after a page got renamed. It doesn't throw an error anywhere obvious. The page just quietly stops being the one Google indexes, and nobody notices until organic traffic on that URL drops and someone goes looking for why.