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Non-Indexable Pages with Canonical Links In

Non-indexable URLs which are referenced as the canonical of another page which was found in the crawl

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Pages which canonicalise to a non-indexable page will not be indexed by search engines and any authority signals from backlinks may be lost.

If this issue affects pages that were already indexed it may cause them to be removed from search engine's results pages.

How do you fix it​

There are two ways in which you can fix this issue:

  • if these pages are the real canonical pages that you want to be indexed simply make them indexable
  • if you don't want these pages to be indexed you may consider removing the canonical links pointing to them

What is the positive impact​

Pages with potential search value can be indexed and potentially generate additional search traffic and conversions.

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
            canonicalLinksInCount
            indexable
            httpStatusCode
            noindex
            canonicalizedPage
            nofollowedPage
            disallowedPage
            unavailableAfter
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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