Crawl error, redirects

[Dagz]

Hi, Google alerted me to a crawl error. Is it because my pages are redirecting to themselves, or am I misunderstanding? Also, let me know if there's anything on these screenshots that I shouldn't be publicly sharing!

 

[dotcomdude]

It's because you've got two versions of your web page:

ending in film/
ending in film

It's often caused by a slight error in how the developers have put the code together. See more info on it here

It's not usually the end of the world, but a 'nice to have' fix.

 

[Lee Oakley]

Hi, Google alerted me to a crawl error. Is it because my pages are redirecting to themselves, or am I misunderstanding? Also, let me know if there's anything on these screenshots that I shouldn't be publicly sharing!

Hi Dags, did you try clicking 'Request Indexing'?

it looks like your co.uk/film/ page was crawled on 22nd Dec (but not indexed - i.e. so wont appear in s Google search) so I'm guessing since you updated that page on 11th Jan that there is now more info on that page than on 22nd Dec?

Was the page blank before as Google is basically saying its crawled the page but not yet added it to the index.

 

[Dagz]

Hi, Yes there was nothing there before (I started from scratch on the same URL I used years ago), and now there is a page. I requested indexing. Have to wait to see if that sorts it. Thanks

 

[UKSBD]

It's because you've got two versions of your web page:

ending in film/
ending in film

It's often caused by a slight error in how the developers have put the code together. See more info on it here

It's not usually the end of the world, but a 'nice to have' fix.

I would say the opposite

They have one version film/
and anyone accidentally typing in the wrong version is redirected to it (this is how things should be)

OP
Make sure you use the trailing slash when linking to any pages on your site, especially within your sitemap

 

[Dagz]

I think I have resolved the issue, so thought I'd share incase it helps anyone else. I used the 'URL inspection tool' in Search Console. It said I had mobile usability issues. That was due to my botched photoshopping which embedded some unintentional web stuff in an image. I replaced the image and hopefully it's now sorted.

 

[Inva]

You don't need a sitemap for this website. Or if you insist, at least remove from it the non-interesting pages.