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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 GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
  getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
    reportsByCode(
      input: {
        reportTypeCodes: Basic
        reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
      }
    ) {
      rows {
        nodes {
          ... on CrawlUrls {
            pageTitle
            url
            description
            foundAtUrl
            hreflangLinksInCount
            indexable
            httpStatusCode
            noindex
            canonicalizedPage
            nofollowedPage
            disallowedPage
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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