Launch and Monitor Your Vue Site

Your Vue site is live. Submit it to Search Console, verify indexing, and track rankings and AI visibility from there.

Pre-Launch Checklist

Before deploying to production:

• Production domain configured with SSL certificate
• robots.txt matches the access policy for your intended search and AI clients
• No noindex meta tags on pages you want indexed
• Sitemap generated at /sitemap.xml
• Canonical URLs point to production domain
• Social preview images working
• Mobile-friendly design
• Diagnose loading and interactions in lab tests; assess Core Web Vitals when qualifying field data exists
• 404 pages return proper status codes
• Redirects from old URLs configured (if redesigning)

Plan public launch checks before publishing. See Pre-Launch SEO Warmup for a week-by-week timeline.

Don't delay your launch chasing perfection. Ship with working fundamentals, then iterate.

Getting Indexed & Cited

For Google AI features, a page must be indexed, snippet-eligible, and included through the relevant Search Console setting. Google’s guidance does not guarantee an appearance. Other providers have their own requirements.

Crawlability means search engines can access your pages. Indexing means they've added your pages to their database.

Read the Going Live guide for deployment strategies and common pitfalls.

Submit to Search Engines

Search engines can discover URLs through links and sitemaps. Set up Google Search Console and submit your sitemap:

1. Add your property (domain or URL prefix)
2. Verify ownership: Domain properties require DNS; URL-prefix properties support additional methods
3. Submit sitemap at Indexing > Sitemaps

For Bing, submit through Bing Webmaster Tools or use IndexNow for URL-change notifications to participating engines.

Check Indexing & AI Visibility

Use a site: search as a rough discovery check, not an exhaustive index inventory. Inspect representative URLs and reported indexing states in Search Console.

Google Search Console shows detailed indexing data under Page Indexing reports:

• Indexed: in Google's index
• Discovered - currently not indexed: found but not crawled yet
• Crawled - currently not indexed: crawled but Google chose not to index

See Debugging Indexing Issues for fixes when pages won't index.

For AI visibility, Search Console's Generative AI performance report shows AI Overview and AI Mode impressions in a dedicated report. Its global rollout completed August 31, 2026. It does not expose clicks or citation counts, and UI availability does not establish a Search Analytics API export.

Monitoring Performance

Set up these tools after launch:

See SEO Monitoring Tools for setup guides and recommendations.

Track these metrics every week:

Search Console:

• Search Performance impressions and clicks; dedicated AI impressions remain a separate report
• Click-through rate (CTR)
• Average position for target keywords
• Page indexing states

Analytics:

• Organic traffic trends
• Top landing pages
• Bounce rate

Core Web Vitals:

• Assess available field data separately for mobile and desktop, confirming URL/origin scope
• LCP p75 ≤ 2.5s
• INP p75 ≤ 200ms
• CLS p75 ≤ 0.1

Don't obsess over daily fluctuations. Look for trends over weeks and months.

Common Post-Launch Issues

Site not indexing after weeks: Check robots.txt, verify no noindex tags, confirm sitemap submitted correctly. See Indexing Issues.

Pages indexed but not ranking: Inspect query intent, actual page content, search appearance, and internal discovery links. Indexing alone does not guarantee a ranking.

High impressions, low clicks: Check Mastering Meta guides first. Compare query intent, position, title, snippet, and search appearance. A CTR change alone does not establish an AI-answer cause.

Migrating to a new domain? See Site Migration SEO for redirect mapping and post-move monitoring.

Deep Dive Guides

Nuxt SEO provides sitemap, robots, and OG-image integrations. Configure them for the app and inspect their output. Learn more about launching in Nuxt →