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Website Indexation: Fix Eligibility First
Website indexation fails on noindex, soft 404s, and wrong canonicals. Fix eligibility on a sitemap sample first, before you rewrite titles or body copy.
Read articleEligibility defects on the public URL — noindex leftovers, canonical splits, prerender drift.
Website indexation fails on noindex, soft 404s, and wrong canonicals. Fix eligibility on a sitemap sample first, before you rewrite titles or body copy.
Read articleCount a redirect chain as hop count plus final status. Check the terminal. Do not celebrate a 301 that lands on an empty 200 as a pass for eligibility.
Read articleA canonical tag checker reads the chosen URL on a sitemap sample. Twins that keep both pages fail eligibility. Fix the tag before you rewrite any titles.
Read articleRendering JavaScript means fetch the HTML a crawler can store, not a live render quota show. An empty root fails eligibility before any later copy rewrite.
Read articleA hreflang audit on this host checks locale pairs, return tags, and x-default. Broken pairs waste eligibility. Prove it on the sample, not on a slogan.
Read articleHTTPS security headers SEO lives in the tech module. Missing headers are a fetch risk, not a Google 100. Read the lights, then fix the host configuration.
Read articleCheck 404 errors seo as hard misses, soft 200s that should not index, and sitemap leftovers. Do not rewrite an empty error template as live content first.
Read articleA noindex tag leftover in meta robots or X-Robots-Tag hides keep-pages. Catch both channels on the sitemap sample, then remove every leftover refusal.
Read articleCheck javascript crawling on empty shells versus stored HTML. Fetch the public URL first. A screenshot is not the stored document a crawler keeps tonight.
Read articleprerender SEO is a snapshot when SSR is not ready. Use it if the stored HTML matches the public URL. Do not prerender an admin host or a cookie wall page.
Read articleduplicate URL indexation is twins that share a keep list. Parameters and trailing slashes split eligibility. Choose one URL, then re-sample the sitemap.
Read articlepagination indexation decides what to sample in a series and what to drop. Page 2 is not always a twin. Cap the draw. Do not crawl every page of the list.
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