Seo - Tag - arleo.euhttps://www.arleo.eu/en/tags/seo/Seo - Tag - arleo.euHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 29 May 2026 20:30:00 +0200Hugo SEO: Googlebot 404s, noindex aliases and sitemap normalizationhttps://www.arleo.eu/en/posts/debug-seo-404-broken-links/Fri, 29 May 2026 20:30:00 +0200Jmrhttps://www.arleo.eu/en/posts/debug-seo-404-broken-links/

Context

Google Search Console was reporting four categories of issues on arleo.eu:

  • Googlebot 404s: /fr/tag/cloudflare, /en/tag/nginx, /fr/tag/javascript… URLs with /fr/ prefix or singular /tag/ never served by nginx
  • 16 “Excluded by noindex tag” pages: all redirect pages generated by aliases: in Hugo frontmatter
  • Robots tag: noodp hardcoded in the LoveIt theme
  • FR/EN sitemap: 104 vs 105 URLs — a duplicate FR tag and two missing tags

Act 1: Hugo aliases → nginx 301 redirects

Why Hugo generates noindex pages

Hugo generates aliases: frontmatter entries as static HTML files:

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⚡ In short

Following the IndexNow plugin (Bing/Yandex), this second plugin completes the SEO pipeline by submitting modified pages directly to the Google Indexing API — with no Composer dependency, using a RS256 JWT signed in pure PHP from a Google Cloud service account.

Source code available on GitHub:

🧠 Why

IndexNow covers Bing and Yandex, but Google does not support IndexNow. To notify Google instantly, you need to use its dedicated API: Google Indexing API v3.

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⚡ In short

Grav has no IndexNow plugin in its official catalog. This homemade plugin fills the gap by automatically submitting modified URLs to api.indexnow.org on every page save — whether through the Grav admin or the MCP plugin — no manual intervention, no cron job, no external dependency.

Source code available on GitHub:

🧠 Why

IndexNow is an open protocol that instantly notifies compatible search engines (Bing, Yandex) when a page is created or modified. Without it, search engines wait for their next crawler pass — which can take hours or days.

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