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    • Titan552
      Titan552 last edited by

      Hi,
      I'm looking at a crawl test report, and I'm seeing that most of the pages have the sitemamp.gz file listed as the referrer.  As I recall in my other reports the referrer is usually the root domain - unless of course there's a redirect.

      Does having sitemap.gz as the referrer indicate a problem? If so, what problem does it indicate?

      Thanks!

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      • Martijn_Scheijbeler
        Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

        Hi,

        No I don't think it indicates a problem. Your sitemap.gz is just the gzipped version of your sitemaps and it's a good sign that they link back to all your pages.

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