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Non-Indexable Pages with Hreflangs In

Non-indexable URLs which are referenced as hreflang alternates from another page found in the crawl

Priority: Medium

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

The target page of the hreflang won't be indexed and can't be served as a regional alternative.

How do you fix it​

The Hreflang target should be updated so it's pointing to a relevant page with a 200 response, or removed.

What is the positive impact​

Search engines can serve the regional alternate page in search engine results page where it's appropriate for users, improving click-through-rates and therefore 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
            hreflangLinksInCount
            indexable
            httpStatusCode
            noindex
            canonicalizedPage
            nofollowedPage
            disallowedPage
            unavailableAfter
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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