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Google Search Console: Using the URL Inspection Tool

Lord Of The Wix · Oct 25, 2026

You can use the Wix Site Inspection tool to get insights about the discoverability, mobile usability, and indexability of your site's pages. Learn more about Wix Site Inspection.


The URL Inspection Tool is a diagnostic tool offered by Google Search Console. It allows you to submit individual pages to Google and simulate how Google crawls or renders a URL on your site.


Important:


To connect to Google Search Console, you must have a Premium plan and a domain connected to your site. This can be either a domain purchased from Wix or a domain purchased from another domain host.


Overview Coverage Report


Once you submit a URL to the tool, you will get an overview report that contains more information about your page:



Google Search Console: Using the URL Inspection Tool

Testing a Live URL


Test your page's URL to make sure it's accessible and working properly. The tool will test your link for errors/warnings and check if Google is able to index it.


Important:


In order to use the URL Inspection Tool, you must first verify your Wix site with Google Search Console.


Google Search Console: Using the URL Inspection Tool

Show me how

  1. Go to Google Search Console.

  2. Enter your site's domain in the search bar at the top and click the Enter key.

    Note: Make sure you enter the full URL, including "https://www" in the beginning.

  3. Click Test Live URL on the right.


Understanding Warnings and Errors


When you submit a page to Google's URL Inspection Tool, it will test your page for any warnings or errors you should know about.



Requesting Google to Index a URL


If you need Google to index a URL for the first time or if you've made changes to an indexed page, you can request Google to do so in the URL Inspection Tool. If Google doesn't find any errors in your live URL, it will be added to a priority-based crawl queue.


Google Search Console: Using the URL Inspection Tool

Show me how

  1. Go to Google Search Console.

  2. Enter your site's domain in the search bar at the top and click the Enter key.

    Note: Make sure you enter the full URL, including "https://www" in the beginning.

  3. Click Request Indexing.


This article is credited to the Wix team - https://support.wix.com/ and we thank them for that!

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