External images are broken
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 8:50 am
This error indicates that there are external images that are broken or you do not have access to them.
This may occur because the external domain is down or no longer exists.
First of all, it is not recommended to use external images, but if you have to use them out of necessity, make sure they are always online or you will see this error constantly.
To fix it, you just need to access the URL where SEMrush tells you that you have this broken external image and modify the link with a current one or delete the link to the external image.
Pages couldn't be crawled
Here it is telling us that there is a page or URL that Google cannot access, is this a bug?
Not necessarily, but we must be careful that Google can easily access the URLs we want to appear.
If you have pages blocked from Google, they will not appear in this search engine and, if they do not appear in it, they will obviously not generate positioning or traffic for the domain.
Normally this type of things happen for several reasons:
We have the tag “<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/> in the URL in question.
The robots.txt file is blocking access to a folder or URL.
The DNS (I'll tell you what they are later) are blocking the domain.
The URL has incorrect formats.
To fix this, you just need to find out what is causing it not to be indexed (shown on Google) and fix that blockage.
As I said at the beginning, it doesn't have to be a mistake as such.
Within SEO strategies we must be aware that not everything has to be on Google.
In fact, on many occasions, the agency blocks access to URLs that do not number code philippines make sense to exist (discontinued products, shopping sessions, information that is too old or that does not generate any type of qualified traffic or does not add value to the domain...) and what happens next is that Google focuses on what it needs to read and automatically moves up in the results ranking.
Pages couldn't be crawled (DNS resolution issues)
This is a very rare bug.
In fact, we've almost never seen it.
What it is telling us is that the DNS or Domain Name Services are not working well or are not working at all.
To make ourselves understood a little, a DNS is, let's say, an intermediate step between the user searching on Google and accessing the information on our server.
What it really means (don't be scared) is reverse name resolution or, in other words, it converts an IP into a domain.
Pages couldn't be crawled (incorrect URL formats)
This error tells us that there are incorrect characters in the URLs and, for this reason, Google cannot index that URL.
Google wants us to always use alphanumeric characters without Latin characters such as “ñ”, accents, blank spaces, underscores such as “_” and, while we are at it, I advise you to always use lowercase characters.
But the reality is that sometimes we have found URLs with these characteristics that you should not use with a better positioning than even other URLs of the same domain, even though they are not advisable.
To fix this issue, I recommend that you always use a 301 redirect if you are going to change one URL to another.
This may occur because the external domain is down or no longer exists.
First of all, it is not recommended to use external images, but if you have to use them out of necessity, make sure they are always online or you will see this error constantly.
To fix it, you just need to access the URL where SEMrush tells you that you have this broken external image and modify the link with a current one or delete the link to the external image.
Pages couldn't be crawled
Here it is telling us that there is a page or URL that Google cannot access, is this a bug?
Not necessarily, but we must be careful that Google can easily access the URLs we want to appear.
If you have pages blocked from Google, they will not appear in this search engine and, if they do not appear in it, they will obviously not generate positioning or traffic for the domain.
Normally this type of things happen for several reasons:
We have the tag “<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/> in the URL in question.
The robots.txt file is blocking access to a folder or URL.
The DNS (I'll tell you what they are later) are blocking the domain.
The URL has incorrect formats.
To fix this, you just need to find out what is causing it not to be indexed (shown on Google) and fix that blockage.
As I said at the beginning, it doesn't have to be a mistake as such.
Within SEO strategies we must be aware that not everything has to be on Google.
In fact, on many occasions, the agency blocks access to URLs that do not number code philippines make sense to exist (discontinued products, shopping sessions, information that is too old or that does not generate any type of qualified traffic or does not add value to the domain...) and what happens next is that Google focuses on what it needs to read and automatically moves up in the results ranking.
Pages couldn't be crawled (DNS resolution issues)
This is a very rare bug.
In fact, we've almost never seen it.
What it is telling us is that the DNS or Domain Name Services are not working well or are not working at all.
To make ourselves understood a little, a DNS is, let's say, an intermediate step between the user searching on Google and accessing the information on our server.
What it really means (don't be scared) is reverse name resolution or, in other words, it converts an IP into a domain.
Pages couldn't be crawled (incorrect URL formats)
This error tells us that there are incorrect characters in the URLs and, for this reason, Google cannot index that URL.
Google wants us to always use alphanumeric characters without Latin characters such as “ñ”, accents, blank spaces, underscores such as “_” and, while we are at it, I advise you to always use lowercase characters.
But the reality is that sometimes we have found URLs with these characteristics that you should not use with a better positioning than even other URLs of the same domain, even though they are not advisable.
To fix this issue, I recommend that you always use a 301 redirect if you are going to change one URL to another.