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Error Pages in Sitemaps

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause

Search engines are encouraged to crawl the broken pages which may waste crawl budget and incur additional server costs.

How do you fix it

Remove the broken pages from sitemap.

What is the positive impact

Fewer non-200 status code pages will be crawled which positively impacts crawl budget and saves on server costs.

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 GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
reportsByCode(
input: {
reportTypeCodes: Basic
reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
}
) {
rows {
nodes {
... on CrawlUrls {
pageTitle
url
foundAtUrl
foundAtSitemap
deeprank
level
sitemapsInCount
httpStatusCode
indexable
duplicatePage
foundInGoogleAnalytics
foundInGoogleSearchConsole
foundInBacklinks
foundInList
foundInLogSummary
foundInWebCrawl
foundInSitemap
}
}
}
}
}
}

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