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Start with the direct answer When important pages are missing from search results, the first thing to do is confirm the page is still indexable. Check the page source for a noindex meta tag, review the robots.txt file for a disallow directive, and look at the server response to rule out a non-200 status. If those are clean, move to the XML sitemap to see whether the page is listed, and check Google Search Console for any manual action or coverage issue reported there. That