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Issue library

SEO issues Crawl Cove finds, and how to fix each one

A short reference for each SEO and security finding Crawl Cove's crawler checks for: what it means, why it matters, how to fix it, and when it's safe to ignore.

Every page in this library explains one finding Crawl Cove's crawler can report, written from what the check actually tests rather than from general advice. Each follows the same order: what the finding means, a real evidence line as the app shows it, why it matters, how to fix it, and the false positives worth knowing about before you spend an afternoon on one. Each also links the official documentation it rests on, so you can check our reading against the source.

The categories follow the ways a site goes wrong. Links covers how pages connect: broken links, redirect hops, and pages that are hard to reach. Meta covers what the head of a page and robots.txt tell search engines and browsers. Content is the page body, from the H1 to thin and duplicate text. HTTP is what the server answers, and Sitemap is whether your XML sitemap agrees with the site. Security and Performance cover HTTPS, response headers and server speed, AI covers the signals answer engines such as ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews read, and WordPress holds the checks that only make sense on that platform.

Severity is the order to work in. A Critical or High finding usually costs traffic now; Low and Info findings are worth fixing while you are already editing the page.

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