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Mobile Alternates in Sitemaps

URLs which were found within the mobile/AMP rel alt tag of another page, which were found in a sitemap during the crawl.

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Google recommends only including either desktop or mobile pages as entries in Sitemaps and generally only the desktop versions are included.

If separate mobile pages are not found via a mobile alternate link, they might be considered duplicate pages until the relationship has been understood which may take some time.

How do you fix it​

Separate mobile should be included as a link attribute under the desktop URL entry instead of a separate entry.

What is the positive impact​

Mobile pages can be identified as an alternate of a desktop page more effectively.

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:

Operation: query GetReportStatForCrawl( $crawlId: ObjectID! $reportTemplateCode: String! $after: String ) { getReportStat( input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode} ) { crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) { nodes { pageTitle url desktopUrl foundAtSitemap deeprank level sitemapsInCount httpStatusCode separateMobile mobileReciprocate amphtml amphtmlReciprocate noindex foundInGoogleAnalytics foundInGoogleSearchConsole foundInBacklinks foundInList foundInLogSummary foundInWebCrawl foundInSitemap } totalCount pageInfo { endCursor hasNextPage } } } }Variables: {"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"mobile_alternates_in_sitemaps"}
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GraphQL
query GetReportStatForCrawl(
    $crawlId: ObjectID!
    $reportTemplateCode: String!
    $after: String
   ) {
      getReportStat(
        input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
      ) {
        crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
          nodes {
            pageTitle
            url
            desktopUrl
            foundAtSitemap
            deeprank
            level
            sitemapsInCount
            httpStatusCode
            separateMobile
            mobileReciprocate
            amphtml
            amphtmlReciprocate
            noindex
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }