Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 6:00:39 GMT
Index Coverage is an area of Google's Search Console that serves to frame the number of pages that can be shown in search results. In particular, it provides information on the pages scanned by GoogleBot - the search engine spider - highlighting which of these are present in the index and which are not. Compared to the previous version of the Search console, the current one describes many more aspects of index coverage and in particular informs us in greater detail about crawl errors , warnings , the characteristics of valid pages and the reasons why one or more resources are excluded from the index. This is automatically generated information (for goodness sake), but it can prove invaluable for evaluating the SEO of a website and dealing with problems that perhaps you are not yet aware of.
I decided to write this article because, dealing with SEO evaluations at a Venezuela Phone Number professional level, I have found over time a poor consideration of index coverage by many people who have turned to me for SEO analysis or consultancy. I certainly have a trained eye, but many of the clients I followed could have noticed the problems affecting their websites well in advance if they had only looked at the index coverage with a little attention. So let's try to frame the main items. img-semblog Coverage error The coverage error (red) is mainly reported in two cases, the first concerns problems in compiling the sitemap, the second has to do with server errors or soft 404 pages . Here are the most frequent cases: The submitted URL (from sitemap) contains a noindex tag Submitted URL has a crawling issue (generic) Sent URL not found (404) Soft Error 404 Server Error (5xx) Let's say right away that sitemaps MUST NOT contain pages with the meta robots in Noindex, MUST NOT contain redirected paths, MUST NOT contain broken paths (404) and MUST NOT contain pages with Canonical tags pointing elsewhere.
In cases like these we have a clear waste of scanning resources with serious repercussions on the visibility of the website in search results. In addition to these, the index coverage reports as errors, soft 404 pages , which are essentially empty content, with or without the website layout. They are more serious than normal 404 pages, because they return a 200 browser code, i.e. the one for correctly reachable pages, however they are very poor or completely empty, therefore of low quality. They simply must not exist. The last issue among those reported as errors concerns paths reported as server errors . In some cases these are temporary situations, but it is always a good idea to evaluate them carefully, so do not underestimate them.
I decided to write this article because, dealing with SEO evaluations at a Venezuela Phone Number professional level, I have found over time a poor consideration of index coverage by many people who have turned to me for SEO analysis or consultancy. I certainly have a trained eye, but many of the clients I followed could have noticed the problems affecting their websites well in advance if they had only looked at the index coverage with a little attention. So let's try to frame the main items. img-semblog Coverage error The coverage error (red) is mainly reported in two cases, the first concerns problems in compiling the sitemap, the second has to do with server errors or soft 404 pages . Here are the most frequent cases: The submitted URL (from sitemap) contains a noindex tag Submitted URL has a crawling issue (generic) Sent URL not found (404) Soft Error 404 Server Error (5xx) Let's say right away that sitemaps MUST NOT contain pages with the meta robots in Noindex, MUST NOT contain redirected paths, MUST NOT contain broken paths (404) and MUST NOT contain pages with Canonical tags pointing elsewhere.
In cases like these we have a clear waste of scanning resources with serious repercussions on the visibility of the website in search results. In addition to these, the index coverage reports as errors, soft 404 pages , which are essentially empty content, with or without the website layout. They are more serious than normal 404 pages, because they return a 200 browser code, i.e. the one for correctly reachable pages, however they are very poor or completely empty, therefore of low quality. They simply must not exist. The last issue among those reported as errors concerns paths reported as server errors . In some cases these are temporary situations, but it is always a good idea to evaluate them carefully, so do not underestimate them.