Submit and inspect your site before launch - shippingszn launch readiness

This is the handoff from 'my site has SEO files' to 'search engines have actually been told about the launch.' A sitemap sitting in your repo is not the same thing as Google knowing about the pages, crawling them, and deciding whether to index them.

Prelaunch founders often announce a product and then discover that Google has not crawled the homepage, the new guide pages are only 'discovered,' or the sitemap was never submitted. That turns launch momentum into dead air. This check makes discovery status visible before you start sending people to the site.

Owner verification required: Search discovery requires authenticated Search Console/Bing access, production-domain checks, and third-party crawl/index state. The local scanner can verify files and page HTML, but it cannot honestly prove sitemap submission, URL Inspection status, manual indexing requests, or whether Google has indexed a page.

The Launch Fix Kit keeps scan-specific findings, file and line evidence, AI-builder punch-list tasks, and verification steps tied to the paid report.

Use the real production domain, not localhost, preview, or a platform fallback URL.
Verify robots.txt, sitemap.xml, canonical URLs, internal links, and noindex/X-Robots-Tag on the live production pages.
Submit the production sitemap in Google Search Console for the domain property, preferably sc-domain:yourdomain.com.
Inspect the homepage and high-value launch pages in Search Console. Record whether each page is live, crawlable, submitted, discovered, crawled, and indexed.
Request indexing for high-value new or changed pages when Search Console allows it, and start validation for fixed indexing buckets when appropriate.

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Canonical URL: https://shippingszn.com/i/search-discovery/