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sitemap.entry.unreachable

Every URL a sitemap lists must answer

errorsite-widevendor-spec

Why it matters

A sitemap is a list of pages you want indexed, so every dead entry spends crawl budget on a promise the site does not keep. The count is a floor when the caps stopped the pass short, and the message says so rather than implying the rest are fine.

What the finding looks like

The message goflag prints, with example values substituted.

error sitemap.entry.unreachable 4 sitemap entries do not answer: https://example.com/old (HTTP 404), https://example.com/gone (HTTP 410). A sitemap is a list of pages to index, so every dead entry spends crawl budget on a promise the site does not keep.

How to fix it

The catalogue carries no snippet for a site rule: a cross-page rule builds its remedy from what the crawl found, so goflag attaches the fix to the finding itself rather than to the rule. Run it and read the finding.

Says who?

This rule is vendor-spec, and it cites the documents below. Nothing here is goflag’s opinion of what a good page looks like — if you disagree with a finding, this is what you are disagreeing with.