Technical health · 4 min read
Find and fix crawl errors
Errors keep pages out of the index. Monitor your coverage and clear them as they appear.
Check your coverage regularly
Your dashboard shows each page as Indexed, Pending, or Error. Errors mean a page couldn't be crawled — a broken link, a server error, a redirect loop, or a blocked path — so it isn't in the index.
Common fixes
- •404s: fix or remove the broken link, or redirect to a live page.
- •5xx errors: check your server — it failed while we crawled.
- •Blocked: remove the robots.txt rule or noindex if the page should be indexed.
Tip: A handful of errors is normal. A high error rate signals a site-wide problem worth fixing — it's dragging down everything you could be ranking.