Opportunity library
Sitemap needs cleaning up
A sitemap that lists addresses that redirect, fail or point elsewhere sends crawlers to the wrong places.
- Applies to
- The whole site
- How much work
- Some work
- Ends in
- Fix it and see it live
How Lastmod finds it
The crawl compares the URLs in your sitemap with what each one actually returns.
What you do
Remove the failing URLs, replace redirecting ones with their final address, and fix canonicals that are wrong.
How the work is followed up
Lastmod looks for your change on the live page and closes the opportunity when the problem is gone. Clicks are followed as context, not as the proof.
More about this problem
Other types in this group
- Missing title →
- Missing meta description →
- Duplicate title →
- Missing canonical →
- Canonical points to another site →
- Title or description length →
- Internal links via a redirect →
- Hreflang problems →
- Very similar pages →
- Incomplete structured data →
- Indexable account pages →
- Unusual URL structure →
- Few internal links →
- Broken internal link →
- Pages not showing in search →
- Google picked another canonical →
- Content seems to need JavaScript →
- Homepage does not say who is behind the site →
- Missing page with search traffic →
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