How Blogo works

The “Is Google showing it yet?” check

Seven days and fourteen days after an article Blogo wrote goes live, Blogo asks Google Search Console whether Google is showing the page, checks whether the page is in your sitemap, and gives you one plain sentence about what to do. It reports what it observed. It does not request indexing for you and does not promise that a page will be shown.

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When a check happens

An article counts as live once its address appears in your sitemap. Blogo dates that from the sitemap’s last-modified date when there is one, otherwise from when it first saw the page.

Two checks are owed per page: one from day 7 and one from day 14. They are not run by a background job. A check that has come due runs when you open your article library, for a few pages per visit and at most once a day per page, and you can press “Check now” at any time. If you first open the library after day 14, one check covers both.

The follow-up covers articles Blogo wrote. Other pages in your sitemap are not tracked here.

What Blogo looks at

Each check makes two observations about one address.

  • Google’s own answer for that address, through Search Console’s URL inspection: whether the page is indexed, whether Google has visited it, whether robots.txt or a noindex setting blocks it, whether Google could load it, and whether Google treats a different address as the main version.
  • Whether the address is listed in your live sitemap. If the sitemap is larger than Blogo reads in one pass (1,000 addresses) and the page is not among them, Blogo records “could not tell” rather than “missing”.

The sentence you get

The result is a short status and one sentence. The wording is fixed in the product, not written by a model. These are the actual sentences for the most common outcomes.

  • “Google is showing this page. Nothing to do.”
  • “Google is showing this page, but it is missing from your sitemap. Add it to the sitemap so later updates are found.”
  • “Google has visited this page but is not showing it on day 14. Link to it from related pages, then request indexing in Search Console.”
  • “Your robots.txt file tells Google not to read this page. Remove that rule, then request indexing in Search Console.”
  • “This page carries a ‘noindex’ setting that tells Google not to show it. Turn that setting off, then request indexing in Search Console.”
  • “Google is showing a different address in place of this page. Check that this page names its own address as the main version.”

Which problem is reported first

When several things are true at once, the sentence names the one you can fix on your own site first. A block in robots.txt, a noindex setting or a page Google could not load comes before anything else, because nothing else helps until that is fixed.

Pages that need action are counted at the top of the library, so you do not have to open each article. A page that Google simply has not visited yet is not counted as a problem before day 7.

Blogo keeps the last few checks for each article, and always keeps the day 7 and day 14 results.

It needs Search Console

The check depends on the read-only Search Console connection for the site. Without it Blogo shows “Search Console not connected” and says nothing about Google, because it observed nothing. A check that could not get an answer does not use up the day 7 or day 14 slot; the check is still owed when the connection works.

If Google does not give a clear answer, the status is “No clear answer”. Blogo never turns an unclear or missing answer into “showing”.

What it does not do

The follow-up is an observation, not an action on your behalf.

  • It does not request indexing. The permission Blogo holds is read-only; you press that button in Search Console.
  • It does not submit or edit your sitemap, robots.txt or page settings.
  • It does not predict when a page will be shown, and it says nothing about ranking position.
  • It does not explain why Google chose not to show a page. It reports the state Google gives and the next sensible step.

Questions

Why day 7 and day 14?
They are the two points Blogo is built to look at: early enough to catch a page that is blocked or missing from the sitemap, and late enough that “not visited yet” starts to mean something. You can also check on any other day with “Check now”.
Does a good result mean my article will get traffic?
No. “Showing on Google” means Google has the page in its index. Whether people find and click it is a separate question that this check does not answer.
Can Blogo request indexing for me?
No. Blogo has read-only access to Search Console. When the advice says to request indexing, you do that yourself in Search Console.
Does the check cost credits?
No. It uses Search Console and your public sitemap, not a paid writing step.

Know whether your articles are being shown

Add your site and connect Search Console to use the follow-up. Blogo is in a free, invite-only pilot.

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