Google saw 3 of my 30 pages

Google could see 3 of the 30 pages on my website. I only found out days after launching.

Every page of aiwithkelso.com looked perfect in the browser. Visitors could click through all of it. Then I opened Google Search Console, and as far as Google was concerned, most of the site didn't exist.

This is the sneakiest trap of building a website with AI, because nothing looks wrong. When you ask AI for a website, it usually builds you an app. The pages don't exist as pages. They get drawn by code the moment someone opens them in a browser.

Google's crawler has to run all that code before it can read a word, and it's slow and unreliable at doing it, so pages get skipped or indexed late. The AI assistants people increasingly search with are worse again. Most of them can't run that code at all, so to them your site may as well be blank.

The fix depends on where you are.

Starting fresh, add one line to your brief: build every page as plain HTML that Google can read without running code.

Already launched, you need a refactor. That means restructuring the code without changing what visitors see. The site looks identical afterwards, but the pages now exist as real pages instead of being drawn on the fly.

Either way, Search Console's Pages report shows you exactly what Google can and can't see. It showed me precisely what was wrong, and once I fixed the problems I went from 3 pages indexed to all 30.

Open Search Console this week and look at your site the way Google does.