My Article is Not Showing on My Site

Check the document status. Completed means finished in NarraSEO but not sent anywhere, and Draft on site means it reached your CMS unpublished. Headless platforms may also need a site rebuild.

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Publishing appeared to work, but the article is not on your website.

First: Check the Document Status

Open Sidebar → Create → Documents and look at the status.

Status	What it means
Completed	Finished in NarraSEO. Not sent anywhere.
Draft on site	Reached your CMS as an unpublished draft
Scheduled	Sent with a future publish date
Published	Sent as published

If it Says Completed

This is the answer most of the time.

Completed means the writing is finished, not that it is on your site. Nothing leaves NarraSEO until you publish it.

Open the article and select Publish.

If it Says Draft on Site

It reached your CMS and is sitting there unpublished. That is what Draft means.

Go into your CMS and publish it, or publish again from NarraSEO with the status set to published.

If it Says Scheduled

Your platform will publish it at the date you set. Check the date, since it is easy to schedule something further out than intended.

The scheduling is handled by your CMS, not by NarraSEO.

If it Says Published

Then NarraSEO sent it as published, and the reasons below apply.

If the Status Says Published but the Page is Not There

Headless Platforms Need a Build

Contentful publishes an entry. Your own front end decides when readers see it, so your site may need a rebuild or a cache revalidation.

Next.js Blog with static generation has the same behaviour. Webhook revalidation is what avoids waiting for a rebuild.

Webflow and Framer Need a Site Publish

Both receive the article into the CMS. Depending on your setup you may still need to publish the site on the platform for the post to appear on your live domain.

Caching

A CDN or caching plugin can serve an old version of your blog index. Clear the cache, or check the post's direct URL rather than the listing page.

Cloudflare, WP Rocket, and similar tools are the usual suspects.

It Went to the Wrong Place

Shopify. If your store has several blogs, check which one is selected in NarraSEO.

Brilliant Directories. Check the post type.

Webflow, Framer, Contentful. Check the collection or content type is the one your site actually renders. Publishing into an unused collection succeeds and shows nothing.

Your Theme is Not Showing It

Some themes only list posts in certain categories, or exclude posts without a featured image. Check the post exists in your CMS admin, and if it does, the problem is your theme's listing rather than the publish.

Quick Checks in Order

Check the document status. Completed means it was never sent.
Look in your CMS admin for the post. If it is there, the publish worked and the problem is on your site.
Check the direct URL rather than the blog index, which rules out caching and listing rules.
Clear your cache.
Publish the site on Webflow or Framer, or rebuild on a headless setup.
Check the destination is the right blog, collection, or post type.

Notes

Publishing again updates the post on platforms that support updating, so it is safe to retry.

Archiving a document in NarraSEO does not remove anything from your website. To unpublish, use your CMS.

If you cannot find the post in your CMS admin at all, treat it as a publishing failure rather than a display problem.

What each publish status means explains the statuses in detail. Publishing to my site failed covers the case where it never arrived.