: Google is complaining that a working URL that is in the sitemap is unreachable I received this warning for a URL that is currently working perfectly. Can you please tell me if this a serious
I received this warning for a URL that is currently working perfectly. Can you please tell me if this a serious warning, or what it means?
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All reachable URLs will still be submitted.
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Test your pages with different user agents, different languages, with browser, which doesn't accept cookies and doesn't use javascript. On this way you'll find pages, which aren't available for googlebot.
It often happens, that pages, which are available from usual browser (answer code 200), are not available (redirected or fire server error) under specific circumstances.
You can easily automate such tests using Screaming Frog or using some browser extensions, if there are only few pages to test.
It helps to inspect your server configuration (like htaccess file for Apache) and, if in use, an engine which recognizes mobile user agents and redirects mobile users to specific pages or page variants. Wrong configuration of such engines is often an error source too.
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