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How to check if your website is correctly set up for Google Discover visibility

Updated

Important: The Rich Results Test does not confirm that a site will appear in Google Discover.
What it does confirm is whether Google can detect key structured data signals correctly.
For Discover, the real checks are: proper indexing, content quality, large images, technical accessibility, and brand/entity signals. Google states that content can appear in Discover if it is indexed and complies with content policies.

Step 1) Test your homepage in Google Rich Results Test

Open Google’s Rich Results Test and enter your homepage URL.

What to check:

  • The page is crawlable
  • No critical structured data errors appear
  • Google detects an Organization (or a more specific subtype, such as OnlineStore or LocalBusiness) on the homepage

Google recommends adding Organization structured data on the homepage, or on one page that describes your organization.

Step 2) Check that your Organization markup includes the right identity signals

Inside the test results, open the detected structured data and verify that these fields are present and correct:

  • name
  • url
  • logo

  • sameAs

    The sameAs property should include the main official profiles related to your brand, such as:

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X / Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • TikTok

  • Pinterest

    Google documents sameAs as the URL of a page on another website with additional information about your organization, such as social media or review profiles.

    Step 3) If sameAs is missing, ask your SEO team to update it

    If one or more official profiles are missing, update the sameAs property in the Organization structured data on your homepage.

    Use only:

  • official profiles
  • live and public profiles

  • URLs that clearly belong to your brand

    Do not add duplicate, broken, redirected, or unofficial URLs.

    Step 4) Re-run the Rich Results Test

    After the update, test the homepage again.

    You want to see:

  • no critical errors
  • The Organization entity is still detected correctly

  • the sameAs list visible and complete

    Warnings are worth improving, but critical errors are the priority. Google explicitly recommends fixing critical errors first. 

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