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On January 31, Google released the URL Inspection API<\/a>, enabling you to programmatically check the status of URLs in bulk (based on properties you have access to in GSC). Although you could always inspect one URL at a time in GSC to see if a URL was indexed, this is the first time you can check the indexing status of URLs in bulk (based on data directly from Google). <\/p>\n

The API opens up many opportunities to understand how Google handles your URLs. Also, it has been great to see the various SEO tool providers move quickly to add the URL Inspection API to their products<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monitoring indexing status via the URL Inspection API and Analytics Edge<\/h2>\n

Regularly checking the indexing status of important URLs can help nip SEO problems in the bud. For example, using the API, you can check on a daily or weekly basis whether your most important URLs are still indexed. And you definitely want to know if important URLs drop out of the index, whether it\u2019s a result of technical problems, quality problems, or Google\u2019s finicky indexing system. That\u2019s versus identifying that problem down the line after you\u2019ve experienced lost rankings and traffic as URLs drop out of the index. And that\u2019s if you pick up the drops quickly enough.<\/p>\n

As soon as the API was released, I started thinking about a solution to periodically bulk-check important URLs. In addition, I started thinking about checking URLs across different sites<\/strong>. And going even further, I wanted to move beyond the 2,000 requests per day limitation (per property), which can be severely limiting for many larger-scale sites. In this article, I\u2019ll cover the solution I\u2019ve been using. It\u2019s easy to set up and extremely cost-effective.<\/p>\n

Analytics Edge, your SEO Swiss Army Knife<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve written heavily<\/a> about using Analytics Edge for a number of scenarios<\/a> in the past. It\u2019s an Excel add-in that enables you to work with several APIs directly in your spreadsheets (and provides a ton of functionality for working with that data once exported). For example, it\u2019s a great way to export your top queries and landing pages from GSC, create Delta Reports<\/a> after major algorithm updates, and more. And now, you can use Analytics Edge to bulk check URLs via the URL Inspection API.<\/p>\n

But it can do more than that. <\/p>\n

By creating several macros, which can be grouped, you can link API tasks together to create a powerful recipe for checking the status of many URLs across websites (or GSC properties from the same site). I\u2019ll cover more about moving beyond the 2,000 URL limit per day soon.<\/p>\n

What you can accomplish via the URL Inspection API using Analytics Edge<\/h2>\n

In this post, you\u2019ll learn how to check the indexing status of your most important URLs, across different websites, all at one time. Instead of just checking one GSC property in bulk, we\u2019re going to do that across several websites automatically (without having to trigger each macro on its own). <\/p>\n

The goal is for you to open a spreadsheet, click the \u201cRefresh all\u201d button, and have Analytics Edge check all your top URLs across multiple sites. It can save you a ton of time, while also providing critical intelligence about important URLs that are no longer indexed.<\/p>\n

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