Page with traffic, without a canonical or with noindex

A noindex or a canonical change pushed with a template update, landing on a page that already had traffic.

This check needs the site’s traffic from Google Search Console. It runs only when the owner has connected it; without it, the audit leaves it out rather than guess.

• Remove the noindex if the page should stay in search.
• Add a canonical pointing at the page itself.

Inspect the page with the URL Inspection tool in Search Console, which shows the canonical Google chose and whether indexing is allowed.

Warning 40 clicks in 28 days, and the page asks not to be indexed. · /category/sale

A page earning traffic is about to leave search, usually after a template change. (An example shop; the numbers are illustrative.)

GSC-003 is a warning in the on-page category, and weighs moderately in that category’s score. When it appears on many pages built from the same template, the report shows it once, with the number of pages it covers — because one change in the template fixes all of them.

If the finding is deliberate on your site, it can be accepted as intentional in the report. It then leaves the list and the score, and comes back on its own if what it shows changes.

• Many impressions, very few clicks · GSC-001
• Close to the first page · GSC-002
• Pages competing for the same search · GSC-004
• Title missing · ONPAGE-001
• Title too long · ONPAGE-002
• Title too short · ONPAGE-003
• Meta description missing · ONPAGE-004
• Meta description outside the useful range · ONPAGE-005
• H1 missing · ONPAGE-006
• Several H1 elements · ONPAGE-007
• Skipped heading level · ONPAGE-008
• lang attribute missing · ONPAGE-009
• meta viewport missing · ONPAGE-010

A Trakis audit runs this check and the other 65 on your site, and tells you on how many pages each one sits. Or go back to all the rules.