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URLs with Underscores

Priority: None

Impact: Neutral

What issues it may causeโ€‹

Google segments URLs to understand the context however they are unable to split on underscores.

How do you fix itโ€‹

Review the URL formats and consider switching to hyphen separators.

What is the positive impactโ€‹

The URLs may rank for fewer search terms.

How to fetch the data for this report templateโ€‹

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
urlContainsUnderscores
httpStatusCode
foundInGoogleAnalytics
foundInGoogleSearchConsole
foundInBacklinks
foundInList
foundInLogSummary
foundInWebCrawl
foundInSitemap
}
}
}
}
}
}

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