Coverage issues detected on google search console
Google search console tools are the mirror of your website, you can see all the coverage issues of your website, the most coverage section displayed all your mistakes or not in your website.
How to solve Coverage issues in the Google search console?
Google search console tools are the most important tool for your website. because when we create a website and write an article our sole motive is that the article would be displayed on the Google search engine. this is why we index our pages. so the question is where we index our pages, the answer is Google search console.
Google search console is not only for indexing, it also serves overview, performance URL inspections, coverage, sitemap, removals, core web vitals reports, Mobile usability, and backlinks data. Here everything is there, the Google Search console will also analyze your website and serve you the results then you can analyze all your data. but I will talk to coverage issues now
What is the coverage?
In Google search console dashboard has coverage. when we click on the coverage section a new page will open on your desktop screen. there are four boxes that will display. they are Error, Warning, Valid, and Excluded sections. these reports show your pages indexed reports or crawl reports. When you submit pages to indexing, index reports may or may not reports will show here. While you click on the coverage section, four boxes will be displayed whichever reports want to view, click on the particular option and see the reports by scrolling down. so guys today I will discuss the coverage section. If you are interested in this topic please read carefully and solve all the mistakes on your website. I will explain one by one.
Contents
Error
Pages with errors have not been indexed, here mainly two errors Google finds. 1st Server error and second redirect error.
Server error
server error means Googlebot couldn’t access the URL, the request has been timeout. Or your website was busy according to the request. Then Google leaves the request forcefully. When your website isn’t indexed then your server returned which is also called error500
Redirect error
From experiences Google has understood that this error is normally of this kind; A redirect chain, A redirect URL, A redirect loop. A redirect URL is a URL with a maximum URL length. There are bad or empty URLs in the redirect chain.
These errors are many kinds of returns unauthorized request(401), non-existent URL (404), requires authorized access(403), submitted URL blocked (4xx), soft error (404).
Warning
The warning pages are to seek your attention. These pages can be index or not is according to your specific results. You get two types of warnings
- Index, though blocked by robots.txt file, the page was indexed despite your website being blocked by robots.txt file. Google always respects robots.txt. They don’t stop indexing even if someone else is linked to your page. Google does not request and crawl the page, but we can index. By using the given link information to your blog the page we can index the page because this is a rule of robots.txt that any snippet shown in search results for the page will be very limited.
- Page indexed without content. This page can be seen in Google index but due to some reasons, Google can’t read this content. One of the possible reasons could be that the page is in such a format that Google can’t format it.
Valid
The pages which are indexed appear in, valid sections. You have submitted for indexing and it has been indexed. Sometimes it happens that it had been indexed but didn’t submit in the sitemap. For example; Through Google, this URL is discovered and indexed. I would request that submit every URL in the sitemap.
Excluded
The pages which are shown here are typically not indexed. But we think that this is appreciation, it can be it’s a duplicate of the index page or blocked from indexing by a mechanism on your site. Or it can be that it’s not indexed for a reason, but we think it’s not an error. the flowing errors are of many kinds, let’s know what is the errors and for what.
Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag
When Google tries to index a page they get a noindex directive that is why they don’t index. If you want that this page doesn’t get indexed then this error is correct. If you want that this page should be indexed, then you have to remove the noindex directive.
Blocked by robot.txt
Google bot has blocked this page through robot.txt file. With the help robots.txt tester you can verify this. If without loading Google gets that page’s information then the page can be indexed. You can be sure that Google hasn’t indexed your page. Remove the robots.txt and use the noindex directive.
Discovered- currently not indexed
This page is found by Google but isn’t crawled yet. Typically, Google wants to crawl this page’s URL but due to overloading on the site, they failed. Hence Google avoids the crawl for meanwhile, due to this reason the last crawl reports show empty.
Alternate page with proper canonical tag
This page is a duplicate of another page due to which Google recognizes it in canonical tag. This page directly indicates the canonical page so you don’t have to do anything.
Not found-(404)
When we request to open and page and the page returns instead of showing the results then it’s called a 404 error. Google discover the URL without revealing any request or sitemap. Google may discover the URL as a link from another site. It can be a reason that this page before was there it is maybe deleted. Google tries to continue this URL instantly but there is no way to command Google bot to forget the URL. That is why Google keeps reminding time to time to crawl the URL but due to the URL missing 404 error displays.404 errors is also called soft error. 404 response is not a problem. If necessary, if your page has moved use the 301 redirects to the new location.
Conclusion
Hopefully, my article could help you in the improvement on your website. If you want to give any suggestion that needed to be included in the article you are free to comment on it. I will surely get back to you
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