A simple Google index checker for testing 20 URLs at once

[MisterPensil]

Hello, everyone in this thread! Our content department recently conducted a massive cleanup of the old blog: we deleted hundreds of outdated articles and set up new canonical URLs. However, the algorithms have gone haywire and started generating Soft 404 errors en masse and refusing to index entire categories with new content, which is causing our reach to drop significantly.

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We urgently need to understand the true scale of the problem and filter out the incorrect URLs. How do you handle this kind of error diagnosis across multiple pages at once? Also, please let me know if there are any tools that can quickly process up to 20 links by pasting them directly into a field on the website—without having to upload separate documents—when you need to quickly check a small test sample?

[Gaston]

Soft 404 errors are a real headache because search engines often mistake empty pages for normal ones, resulting in a waste of the crawl budget. For this kind of diagnosis, it’s best to use a specialized tool—for example, I can recommend SpeedyIndex’s Google page index checker, where you can either paste 20 links directly into the web version for a quick test or upload a full file containing thousands of URLs. The tool provides accurate “Indexed”/“Not Indexed” data without caching and generates a convenient report for webmasters, which saves a significant amount of time. Have you already checked whether those problematic pages are returning an incorrect 200 OK server response code instead of a proper 404? And how many URLs in total were affected by this faulty update?