Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
I checked the page source, the pages are already set to index.
The URLs were last crawled in October, you can submit the URLs for validation and wait for Google to crawl the URLs.
The Coverage report in the Search Console is slower and it may show older issues that might have already been resolved.
I hope this helps.
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Ok, thanks so much.
there is one more thing. I understand the importance of not indexing pages with thin contents. However, I have a 404 page that will remain permanently thin in content. It was among the pages reported to have been blocked from indexing.
I removed it from the Google search console in an attempt to solve the issue.
What do you suggest I do about it, as 404 pages are usually of thin contents?
Shouldn’t it be indexed with its little content?
Hello,
As the 404 page/URL does not have any actual content or a content that will help the users, it should be kept No Index.
By default, we keep the 404 page No Index. I checked your website and accessed a random 404 URL and the page was already set to No Index.
If a page that does not exist on your website is getting reported in the Google Search Console, then you can redirect that URL to a related/useful page to fix the issue and direct the traffic/bot coming from it. Here’s a guide that you can follow: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-404-errors/
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
Hello,
We are super happy that we could address your concern. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
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If you have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
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