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What kind of impact does a 404 have in a sitemap regarding ranking?
We ended up discovering that Google was very slow to update the console. Where other crawlers will crawl on demand and provide results in a couple of hours, in comparison, Google is about 3-4 days behind. We also heard that they have been having issues with the crawler lately which is what led to them temporarily disabling the "Request Indexing" button. So we look at Google now but only as a delayed reference after having used other tools like Moz and Screaming Frog. We found all of our answers using these other tools. We just wait patiently to know that eventually we are in Google's good graces.
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