- LRT Documentation
- 02 Concepts
- SEO Metrics
- URL Metrics
- Indexability Status
Indexability Status
Depending on the interpretation of META tags and Robots.txt, for different types of links and redirects, LRT can show different status for the page.
LRT Classic
LRT Classic shows status icons next to each link in your reports.
These are the same icons also used in the Link Redirect Trace browser extension.
Symbol | Meaning |
---|---|
indexable by every bot | |
the links on the page are followed | |
the page has a Rel-Canonical redirect to another page | |
crawlable by major bots, some minor bots or scrapers blocked | |
NOT crawlable by any bot | |
NOT indexable | |
the links on the page are not followed |
Here is how you can read a combination of the above status messages:
Symbol | Meaning |
---|---|
indexable by every bot, links on the page are followed | |
NOT indexable, links on the page are not followed | |
indexable by every bot, links no-follow | |
indexable by every bot, page canonicaled to another page (so links on the page may not count) |
|
indexable by major search engine bots, links on the page are followed | |
indexable by major search engine bots, links on the page are not followed | |
indexable by major search engine bots, page canonicaled to another page (so links on the page may not count) |
|
NOT indexable, links on the page are followed | |
NOT indexable, page canonicaled to another page (so links on the page may not count) |
LRT Smart
Source Page Status and Target Page Status
LRT Smart shows the page indexability status as a text representation, which is more accessible and self explanatory.
The two columns
- Source Page Status
- Target Page Status
are interpreted and can be as follows
Page Status | Description |
---|---|
Index | |
NoIndex | |
Follow | |
NoFollow | |
Major Index | indexable by major search engine bots |
These states are for the page itself, like link status is for the link itself.
So it is possible that a page is set to NoFollow, while the link itself is set to Follow. The result for Google would be a "NoFollow", altough in this mix they would probably see it differently than if everything would be consistent.