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Error start URL: noindex, nofollow

The message "Error start URL" is displayed in the onpage analysis management for example.tld

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Written by Benjamin Weßel
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Symptoms

  • Under Onpage > Analysis management > example.tld the message Error start URL is displayed

  • the following string is in the source code of the page:
    ​<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Cause

The meta tag robots prevents the page from being crawled.

Solution

  • Remove noindex, nofollow from the meta tag robots

  • Restart the onpage analysis by navigating to Onpage > Analysis management > example.tld and clicking on START RECRAWL .

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