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Index Coverage Issue

Google Search Console

Subject:

New Index coverage issue detected for site http://snbchf.com/

Email from Google

Google Search Console
Google Search Console

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This is a minor problem with Google Search Console. it is nan error, just a warning about one redirecting url. We ignore this emails.

FIX Index Coverage Issues Google Webmaster

Go to webmaster then look for a message stating index coverage issues, then look how many pages get impacted due to this.

Index Coverage
Index Coverage

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Once you identified it then look for suggestions from Google to fix it.

Your issue is either by following, identify it first.

  1. Robots.txt file which is not allowing Google to index particular pages. I tested my robots.txt but its perfectly configured for me.
  2. Pages are not getting fetch using Google Bots. For me, it was also working as expected.
  3. It’s not getting indexed in the search engine because of incorrect meta robots tags “noindex,nofollow” or noindex,follow” for particular pages. This was my problem as all of my 5 flagged pages had “noindex,nofollow” tags in their meta robots section which avoiding search engine to index it. So I identified my exact issue.
  4. Your sitemap is incorrect and needs resubmission. My sitemap is ok as I use Yoast sitemap. So this condition is not applicable to me.     

Index Coverage 2
Index Coverage 2

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To address this issue simply navigate to “affected pages” showed in search console -> View Page Source. Look for robots meta tag. In my case, I found the following tag with affected pages. That was the obvious reason Google Webmaster flagged it.
Meta Tag Index Noindex
Meta Tag Index Noindex

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Yoast SEO Premium
Yoast SEO Premium

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Later I edited my page using Yoast SEO settings, I changed its meta robots index to “index, follow”.

Once you confirm changes in affected pages  & its “view source code”, then resubmit it to Google for further validation.  You have to wait for confirmation from Google.

This is how you can fix your Index coverage issues in webmaster panel.

Meta Robots
Meta Robots

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