Technical SEO Wiki Entry

Indexability

Whether a crawled page is eligible to be added to a search engine's index.

Indexability is controlled by robots meta tags, X-Robots-Tag headers, canonical signals, content quality and duplicate detection. A page can be crawled but not indexed if it carries a noindex directive, points to a different canonical or is judged thin or duplicate. The Google Search Console Index Coverage report reveals indexability issues across a site.

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noindex Meta Tag

A directive telling search engines not to include a page in their index.

Canonical URL

The preferred version of a page when duplicate or similar content exists.

Index Coverage Report

A Search Console report showing which URLs Google has indexed and any issues.

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