Phone number link / critical crawler issue

Paul730

I've got 15 critical crawler issues coming up, all of which are ( tel: )links to the contact phone number.

As this is a taxi firm, these links are pretty vital to customer conversion.

Should I worry about these issues from an SEO perspective? If so, is there anything I can do about it?

Nigel_Carr

Hi Paul

Google knows not to crawl tel: links and this is not a problem. It's more an issue with the tool than SEO and will do you no harm.

If you really want to remove the warning you could use a bit of Java

Or nofollow them in Robots.txt

I have a site which is crawled by MOZ weekly with tel: links and they don't report them as problematic and the site ranks really well!

Regards Nigel

Paul730

That's very helpful & has put my mind at res- many thanks!

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