Example
Published guides are eligible, preview routes are noindexed, old slugs redirect and filter permutations are excluded from the sitemap.
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Glossary · index coverage
Index coverage compares eligible site URLs with pages a search engine has crawled, processed and chosen to index.
Coverage is not ‘100% indexed.’ Many URLs should redirect, canonicalize, remain noindexed or never exist. The goal is correct eligibility and useful preferred pages.
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Why it matters
Missing important pages and indexing low-value URLs both waste search opportunity and operational attention.
In practice
Segment by intended URL class before calculating coverage.
Measurement
Compare canonical eligible URLs, submitted sitemap URLs, inspected index state, crawl evidence and page-class expectations.
Application
Fix the governing template or rule when a pattern affects a class; validate representative live URLs after approval.
Paid deployment · human authority
Monitor index eligibility as a system, not a one-time count.
Deploy paid technical monitoring after defining expected page classes.