New Index Coverage Issue Spotted for Site — How to Fix It?

You just received a message that says: “A new index coverage problem has been detected for site: example.com.”

What does this mean for the organic performance of your website and how do you solve it? We explain both in this article. Don’t worry, we have you!

Why did you receive this notification

Google reports on how they fared crawling and indexing your site in the Index Coverage report in Google Search Console.

If they find urgent problems, they notify you by email and you will receive one of those “New index coverage problem detected” messages.

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Here’s an example we received after not indexing some pages a week earlier:

How to fix this problem?

1. In the email, click the blue button that says: Troubleshoot index coverage using Search Console. This will take you to the index coverage report.
2. Now, you want to check if the problem persists because these messages are sent late. This is why we recommend setting up SEO alerts that are triggered immediately as these issues arise.
3. If the problem persists, dig in and find out what’s causing it using our detailed guide in the Index Coverage report. Describes all the problems listed in the report, including how to fix them.

In our case, for example, we had added the noindex meta robots to multiple pages and Google thought that the pages were still listed in the XML sitemap. That was not the case, Google sent a false positive.

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