Search and Site Health
The Search page in the site sidebar answers one question: how is my site doing in Google and in AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity, and what should I do next? At the top sits the Site health card. Below it, once you connect Google, are your real search numbers.
Everything on the card is read from your own site and, when connected, your own Google Search Console. It needs no extra account or key.
The Site health card
The card shows a ring with how many checks pass (for example 5/9), one sentence about the state of your site, and up to three things to do next.
| Sentence | Means |
|---|---|
| Search engines can’t find your site yet, start here | The site has never been built, or it has no web address. |
| Your site needs attention | At least one important check is failing. The sentence says how many things to fix. |
| Your site is in good shape | What is left, if anything, is a quick fix. |
Under Do this next the most useful fixes come first, and a one-click fix comes before a trip to another page. The first button is the filled one. Each step has a small ? beside it. Click or tap it (or press Enter when it has focus) to read why the step matters.
When nothing is left to fix, the card says so. Open See everything at the bottom for every row, with an icon for each:
- a tick means it passed
- an open circle means it needs a fix
- an information icon is background that is never counted, such as how many searches put you on Google’s first page
- a clock means it cannot be measured yet
What gets checked
| Check | It passes when | The button |
|---|---|---|
| Site address | The Site URL matches your custom domain, or one of them is set. | When they disagree, a button named after your domain (for example Use example.com as your address) fixes it in one click. With no address at all, Add your address opens Generation. |
| Google Search Console | Google is connected. | Connect Google takes you to the connect card on this page. |
| Sitemap | The site has been built since your last published change, under the current address. | Publish your site |
| Post descriptions | Every published post has an SEO description or an excerpt. | Add them. With no published posts the row reads “You haven’t published any posts yet” and offers Write a post. |
| Post titles | No published post title is longer than about 60 characters, which is where Google cuts titles off. | Open posts |
| llms.txt | A build has written the file that gives AI tools a summary of your site. It is a nice to have, not a ranking factor. | Publish your site |
| AI search engines can read your site | The site’s robots.txt does not shut out OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, or Googlebot. Every build writes a robots.txt that allows them, so a fail usually means an old build. | Publish your site |
| Who is behind the site | You have an About page and an author name. | Add an About page or Add your name (the Author field in Generation). |
| Easy for AI to quote | Fewer than half of your posts score under 50 on the GEO panel. Needs at least one published post. | Improve posts |
| Built pages | A basic scan of the last build (see below) finds nothing to fix. | The button for the issue it found. |
Checks on posts skip any post you have set to noindex.
The built-page check
Once the site has been built, WordPuppi scans the built pages, up to 500 of them on a large site, and reports at most the two biggest problems:
- pages that link to a page that does not exist (Open posts)
- images with no description for screen readers and Google (Open posts)
- pages with no main heading (Open pages)
- images over 500 KB, which slow a page down (Open media)
The hint beside each lists a few examples so you know where to look. When it finds nothing the row reads “Your pages passed a basic check”.
Search Console rows
When Google Search Console is connected, the card adds rows from the last 28 days of your own search data. The numbers are refreshed about once a day.
- Give a post a sharper title and description. A post that Google shows at least 100 times but that fewer than 2 in 100 people click. The hint lists the top searches that find it. Edit post.
- You’re just off page 1. A search where your average position is between 11 and 20, and a post is the page Google shows for it. Edit post.
- Write a post that answers it. A search with at least 50 impressions that none of your post titles covers. Write a post opens a new post with the search as its title.
- You show up on Google’s first page for N searches. Information only: it is never counted and never a next step.
Connecting Google Search Console
If Google is not connected, the Search page shows Connect Google Search Console. Press it and approve read access to the site’s Search Console data. If the server has no Google connection set up, the page tells you Search Console is not configured yet instead of failing.
Once connected, a table lists each page with its Clicks, Impressions, CTR, and Position. A new site can take a few days before Google reports anything. Disconnect, at the top right of the page, removes the connection.
On the desktop app the Google approval opens in your system browser, and the page updates when you switch back to the app.
Fixing it with Baxter
Baxter can work through the card with you. In Baxter’s chat chips, pick Fix my top SEO issue.