Should you submit a sitemap to Google Search Console?

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Using the Site Audit Tool for Sitemaps
You can use the Site Audit tool to generate a report on your crawled pages. You will be able to compare the pages in your sitemap with the number of pages that the robots were able to crawl:

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In this example from our Knowledge Base , the tool shows that many pages in the sitemap have not yet been crawled.

You can also use this tool to find and fix issues that may be impacting your site’s crawlability. This tool includes over 120 on-page and technical SEO checks for common site issues.

There are some issues that can affect the crawlability of your website:

Blocking with the meta robots tag : If you have a page russia telegram data that is under construction, seasonal, or may affect the ranking of another page, you can block robots from crawling the page.
"Nofollow" links : Crawlers will continue to index the page, but links on that page will not be crawled.
Broken internal links : If you've moved pages or linked to pages that no longer exist, Google's bots will no longer be able to crawl them.
Server errors : If your server is unreachable or returns an error when bots try to crawl it, this can affect the crawlability of your site.
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Once you have performed an audit with the tool, you will be able to view the list of site errors in the "Issues" tab.