Reconstruct one customer journey
Pick a valuable service and start a page or two upstream. Can a visitor reach it from a related category? Does the link lead straight to the final address? A redirect chain, a missing link and an accidental indexing directive each leave a different trail.
Compare the delivered page with what people see
A working template can still publish generic titles or omit the detail that distinguishes one location from another. We compare page metadata, the rendered heading, main content, navigation and structured data on a representative set of pages. Repeated defects belong in the shared template that produces them.
Check the public release and follow the indexing record
We inspect the corrected URL once the change ships. With access to Search Console, your team can also compare Google’s recorded canonical URL and last crawl. Those dates help explain why a live repair may precede a change in search results.