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Pages with Meta Nofollow and Backlinks

URLs which have backlinks but which have a meta or header nofollow directive.

Priority: Critical

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

The page level robots nofollow directive means that every link on the page will have a nofollow applied, so PageRank cannot be passed through to other pages on the site and will be lost.

Search engines will not be able to discover any new URLs through links on these pages.

How do you fix it​

Consider removing the nofollow directive, or applying a rel=nofollow to specific links instead.

What is the positive impact​

  • The rankings of other pages may be improved as PageRank can be passed to other pages and distributed throughout the site.

  • New URLs may be discovered through links.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportStatForCrawl(
    $crawlId: ObjectID!
    $reportTemplateCode: String!
    $after: String
   ) {
      getReportStat(
        input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
      ) {
        crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
          nodes {
            pageTitle
            url
            description
            foundAtUrl
            backlinkDomainCount
            deeprank
            level
            backlinkCount
            nofollowedPage
            headerNofollow
            metaNofollow
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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