31 URLs in the sitemap, 1 indexed — a full SEO checkup of my 3 sites with AI

2026-06-11 ／ Vol 19 ／ draft at the time of publishing

On 2026-06-03 I sat down with the AI (Claude) and did a full Search Console checkup of the three sites I run: this site rooo.pro, the company information site esynet.jp, and the community site karaha.org.

The result is in the title. The biggest finding: karaha.org was handing Google a sitemap with 31 URLs, yet only 1 page — the top page — was actually indexed. The site is still young, but in practical terms it didn't exist in search.

A health check of all 3 sites, side by side

The trigger was simple: on all three sites, my Search Console involvement had stopped at "registered the property, submitted the sitemap." I had never properly read the numbers beyond that.

The format: the AI reads through the Search Console screens, and I sit next to it asking "what does that mean?" and "is that a problem or normal?" Manual penalties and security issues: zero on all three sites. The technical implementation was actually on the solid side — karaha.org even got rated "exemplary" for having structured data on every page.

And yet, lining up the basic numbers gave this:

karaha.org effectively didn't exist in search

1 out of 31. My first thought was that something must be broken. robots.txt, canonical tags, noindex, internal links, redirects — we went through every suspect one by one with the AI, and everything was healthy.

The cause wasn't a defect in the site. It was simply that Google hadn't come to crawl the lower pages yet. When a domain is newish and has few backlinks, Google is slow to spend crawl budget on it. "Nothing wrong with the pages, but they don't get indexed" is apparently a perfectly common state.

I knew this in theory. Seeing it in my own site's numbers hits differently. The event announcements, the activity reports — I had been publishing all of it in a state where not a single page could be found from search.

Other findings: all 3 sites live on branded search only

The individual findings, listed out:

・Traffic is almost entirely branded search. On all three sites, the people arriving from search are only those who searched for the site or organization name (karaha / esynet / rooo). Exposure on generic keywords was essentially zero. In other words, only people who already know us arrive via search.

・esynet.jp had 6 404s. Leftover URLs from the old site era were recorded as 404. On inspection, redirects are already in place and there's no real harm — it resolves itself once Google recrawls.

・rooo.pro's title said nothing. What showed up in search results was just "rooo.pro". You can't tell what the site is, so there's no reason to click. esynet.jp, meanwhile, was showing up but far away, at an average position of 43.5.

What I did the same day

The fixes split into two tracks: "encourage crawling" and "make the pages better."

・Indexing requests: 8 key pages on karaha.org (hub pages plus recent events) and 3 articles on rooo.pro — 11 URLs total via URL inspection, close to the daily limit
・Sitemap resubmission: resubmitted karaha.org's sitemap. Small discovery: the submission form only accepted the full URL
・rooo.pro title fix: from "rooo.pro" to "rooo.pro｜build in public ― メディアが立ち上がる過程を公開中" — say what the site is in the title
・esynet.jp structured data coverage: added breadcrumbs etc. to the remaining pages so every page is covered
・404 resolution confirmed: verified against the live URLs that the redirects work

Every improvement that could be turned into code was pushed to all three sites the same day. From checkup to fixes in half a day — that speed is what makes auditing alongside an AI worth it.

Not ending on "the day I took action": measurement as a routine

If it ended there, I would probably never open Search Console again. So I turned the follow-up measurement into a weekly Monday AI scheduled task. It reads Search Console and appends to a log file: index counts for the three sites, sitemap status, search performance, and whether any non-branded queries have started to appear. Read-only — it touches nothing on the sites.

To be honest: about a week after the checkup, there's no dramatic change yet. Indexing is said to take days to weeks, and a request doesn't guarantee registration. That's exactly why I took "checking the numbers" out of the hands of willpower and made it a routine. Whether the numbers moved is something the Monday log will tell me, every week.

The lesson: SEO starts with a health check

The lesson this time: before hunting for some brilliant SEO tactic, get a health check.

How many URLs are you publishing in your sitemap, and how many are actually indexed?
Can you answer that gap, off the top of your head, for your own site?

I couldn't. The 31-to-1 figure — I didn't even know it existed until the checkup. Being technically tidy and being discoverable by Google turned out to be two different things.

None of this is flashy: know the basic numbers, fix what can be fixed the same day, turn measurement into a system. That's probably enough for a first step in SEO. Everything beyond it — backlinks, more content — can wait until these numbers start moving.