Audit rules
Sitemap URL Not Indexable
A URL listed in the sitemap answers with an error, redirects or is marked noindex. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has warning severity and is left out of the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.
site.sitemap_url_not_indexableWarning01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
site.sitemap_url_not_indexable- Group
- Site (Crawl)
- Severity of a failure
- Warning
- Counts in the score
- No, the site rules of a crawl are left out of the score
- Required for a score
- No
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- A URL from the sitemap was crawled and answered 4xx or 5xx, redirected, or is noindex → fail on that URL
- Exceptions
- Sitemap URLs the crawl did not reach are not judged
Sources
- Sources
- Build and Submit a Sitemap (Google Search Central, Q04)
How to specify a canonical URL with rel="canonical" and other methods (Google Search Central, S12)
02 — Site (Crawl)
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Duplicate Titlesite.duplicate_title
- Duplicate Meta Descriptionsite.duplicate_meta_description
- Internal Link to an Error Pagesite.broken_internal_link
- Internal Link Through a Redirectsite.redirect_internal_link
- Invalid Sitemapsite.sitemap_invalid
- Hreflang Without Return Linksite.hreflang_not_reciprocal
- Orphan Pagesite.orphan_page
- Deep Pagesite.click_depth