Google Search Console - Coverage errors

[maverick27]

Hi Everyone.

This is my 1st attempt on SEO for my site.

I have installed & configured a SEO Plugin on my site.

Also, generated the Sitemap URLs & submitted on Google Search Console.

Google did a crawl on my Site dated Mar 31, 2020, 5:09:51 PM.

I checked for Coverage errors & found 135 URLs under Crawled – currently not indexed

Out of 135 URLs, 132 URLs have a /feed/ extension.

eg:

https://www.example.com/homepage/feed/

https://www.example.com/luxury-villas-in-country/portfolio-type/residence/main-gate/feed/

Qtn

Do the Permalinks with /feed/ extension have an impact on SEO ?

Do I simply ignore them ?

Reason for asking, 2x URLs are pointing to the Home Page.

Eg:

https://www.example.com/homepage/feed/

https://www.example.com/feed/

Thanks in Advance.

[edited by: goodroi at 12:11 pm (utc) on Apr 3, 2020]

[edited by: not2easy at 12:29 pm (utc) on Apr 4, 2020]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

[not2easy]

Hi maverick27 and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

Your use of the terms "Permalinks" and "plugin" here suggests that you are using WordPress, is this correct? If that is the case you want to limit your sitemaps to listing a single version of each page and/or post. Your RSS feed is not the version of your content that you would want to index usually. Submitting every URL in a WP site is not necessary and can be counterproductive. Google understands that there will be more than one URL for your content. It can help to use canonical meta tags to point to the version you would like to have indexed but it can hamper the sorting if every version is included on a site.

[maverick27]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, it's a Wordpress site.

I have submitted to Google Search Console 6x Sitemap URLs namely:

General ; Posts ; Pages ; Portfolio ; Portfolio Category & Tags

Despite, the Site Homepage SEO Score of 76/100. my site is not appearing on Google Search with keywords "luxury villas in country "

URLs below are showing up in the Coverage errors: Crawled - currently not indexed Category.

https://www.example.com/homepage/feed/
https://www.example.com/feed/

Qtn :

Do I need to concerned for these 2 URLs not being indexed ?

[edited by: not2easy at 12:31 pm (utc) on Apr 4, 2020]
[edit reason] exemplified [/edit]

[not2easy]

That is not a good idea and will be seen as duplicate content because the several sitemaps only offer different ways to view the same content.

You do not want your /feed/ URLs indexed. Those are often abbreviated versions of your content. When you have multiple versions of the same content all submitted to be indexed, you are competing against yourself. It is not a smart thing to do.

You need to back up and look at your permalink structure, decide which version of each page or post you want to have indexed and submit ONLY those sitemaps to GSC. You should include meta tags to canonicalize each version to point to a single URL.

[maverick27]

Thanks for the update.

Sorry for the delayed response.