Why we check this
We check this because unresolved technical issues can silently block Google from crawling, rendering or indexing your pages at all — no amount of good content fixes a page search engines can't reach in the first place.
How it's checked in your audit
In your seoaudits.ie audit, this is checked as part of the Technical SEO pillar, using crawl data, log files and manual verification.
A common issue we see
Sites often generate a sitemap but never actually submit it, or submit an old URL that 404s after a domain change.
How to fix it
Submit the current sitemap URL in both Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and check the coverage report a few days later to confirm it's being read correctly.
Want this checked on your own site?
Call Cian and we'll scope the right audit tier for you.