(Newswire.net — May 20, 2019) — Just about everyone has received the New Index Coverage Issue notice from Google. There are also Search Console users that were also notified of the issue. This is why it is important to understand just what it actually means.
So what is the New Index Coverage Issue?
Anyone that has received a notification would see a message which says new index coverage issue detected in their Google Search Console. It means that your site has also been impacted by the new Index Coverage issue as identified by the Search Console. Speaking of the impact, the Index Coverage is most likely to have affected the Google Search results negatively. It is vital to get the issue fixed in no time. Now, when you receive, within your indexation problems, 404 URLs and XML sitemaps, the notification has highlighted the problems.
How come the New Index Coverage Issue notice is only being seen now?
The thing is that the New Index Coverage Issue notice is just Google’s rollout of its newest Search Console. It had only been launched to provide website owners and Google more transparency for Google’s indexing, and to improve the communication among the two so as to ensure that issues are resolved much faster. An advantage of this would be that website owners would benefit from a user-interface that is more responsive. One of the features of this upgraded tool is that users that have been verified would be given access to the Index Coverage report which is helpful. It is just like the Index Status report as it helps show you how Google has indexed a website well and it also shows the changes that have been made over a period of time. Another thing that it also does is that it shows warnings about indexing issues and error URLs.
How can one fix these New Index Coverage Issues?
It is important to fix these New Index Coverage Issues as early on as possible which can be done by the diagnostic tools that are included in the Index Coverage report. This helps one identify just which issue could be causing the trouble. Just click onto the problematic link that is in the report interface to access these tools.
Normally, these issues are caused by four things.
1. Google is being blocked from accessing pages in the website by your Robots.txt file.
2. Using Google Bots, the pages are not getting fetch.
3. Incorrect meta robot tags like noindex,follow or noindex,nofollow are being featured on the pages.
4. Certain inaccuracies need to be addressed in the sitemap.
If you examine all of the above and how they affect URL, you would be able to use the diagnostic tools provided by Google to help rectify the problem in a short amount of time. However, if the problem doesn’t get solved then you can look into the matters online by checking Google Support.
The tools can be used to resubmit the URL for the approval of Google once changes are made.