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Noindexed Mobile Alternates

Mobile or AMP alternates which correctly reciprocate to a desktop URL, but which have a noindex meta tag, or HTTP header.

Priority: Medium

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

If the desktop page does not have a noindex then search engines may apply the noindex from the mobile alternate, or the mobile page may not be served as a mobile alternate.

How do you fix it​

The noindex state of the mobile alternate page should match the desktop page.

What is the positive impact​

The separate mobile and AMP pages will be seen as mobile alternates of the desktop pages and served in search engine results pages for searches on mobile devices.

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
            description
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            noindex
            separateMobile
            mobileReciprocate
            amphtml
            amphtmlReciprocate
            desktopUrl
            canonicalUrl
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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