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Can anyone find me on Google?

An app can be finished, live and completely invisible. The settings that decide whether Google lists you are the ones an AI tool leaves at whatever they were while it was being built.

Free. No sign-up. We check the one page you give us, and only what any visitor can already see.

What this check can and cannot see

This is the same search-and-speed department as the full scan, focused so the result is only about being found. It reads your public pages and nothing else.

What we will never doChange anything in your app, or keep your customers’ data. A finding holds a count, the column names, and one sample blanked past its first two characters.
How it happens

Nobody chooses this. It is what is left out.

Every builder puts a "do not list this" instruction on a site while you are working on it, which is correct: you do not want a half-finished app in search results. It is supposed to come off when you launch. Nothing removes it for you, and nothing complains afterwards.

The rest is quieter. No map of your pages, so Google finds the home page and stops. No title, so your search result says whatever the tool called the file. Links that go nowhere, which tell a search engine the site is abandoned.

None of this shows up as an error. Your site works, your customers who already have the link can use it, and the ones who would have found you simply never arrive. There is no alert for a sale that never happened.

What it looks like

Two results, printed as you would get them.

Neither of these is your app. They are the words our own checker prints, on test apps we built with the faults we see in the wild.

robots instruction, every page
Your site is telling Google not to list it in search results, because of a noindex instruction left on every page.

If that is on purpose (a private tool), fine. If you want customers to find you on Google, this is quietly blocking every one of them.
ExampleCosts you customers

Your site is asking Google not to list it.

What it means for youNot a ranking problem, an existence problem. You will never appear for your own company name, and no amount of writing or spending changes that until this comes off. It is one line, and it is usually left over from the day the app was built.
what we didread the instruction your site gives a search engine
what we founddo not list this site, on every page we checked
4 of the 6 pages we checked
4 of the 6 pages we checked have no description, the little summary Google shows under your title.

Without it Google writes its own, which usually gets fewer clicks.
ExampleWorth a spare hour

Four pages have no description under their title.

What it means for youYou are in the results, so this is not urgent. It costs you some of the people who see you and choose somebody else, and it is an hour of writing rather than a rescue. We put it where it belongs instead of at the top shouting.
what we didread the summary each page gives a search engine
what we foundmissing on 4, present on 2
If the answer is yes

It says you are invisible. Now what?

If it is the blocking instruction, that is one line removed and then a wait: Google has to come back and look again, which takes days rather than minutes. Nothing you do speeds that up much, so the sooner it comes off the better.

The rest is writing, not engineering. Titles and descriptions for the pages that matter, and a map of your pages so nothing is missed. The free check names every page and what is missing from it; paying gets you the words to paste and something watching for the day a change puts the block back.

What a plan adds →

Before you paste your address

The questions people ask.

How many pages do you look at?
The free check looks at the one you give us, and tries a couple of others if that one comes back clean, because the page you paste is usually your tidiest. We follow your sitemap and your own links, so we see what a search engine would see rather than guessing at addresses.
Will this tell me why I rank below a competitor?
No, and anybody who says they can is guessing. This answers a narrower and more useful question for a new app: can Google list you at all, and does the result look like something a person would click. Ranking is a different job that starts after both are true.
My app is private on purpose. Is that a problem?
Not at all, and the report says so rather than marking you down. The finding above says it in as many words: if it is on purpose, fine. What we are looking for is the case where somebody wants customers and is quietly blocking all of them.
Can anyone find me on Google? · GuardCue