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(Entry was posted by Nathan Nikolay Gaidy on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/25/2020).

Do errors on the GSC Directly affect PageRank?

HiDo errors on the Google Search Console Directly affect PageRank? For example pages in the sitemap that are marked `noindex`?
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  • Michael Martinez: It`s complicated. PageRank is calculated for the URL to which links point, but is calculated based on the links pointing to the URL.

    If you`re noindexing a page then whatever PageRank would have flowed to it is (supposedly) evaporated back into the index. So in that respect you`re kind of walking away from or abandoning some potential PageRank inflow.

    But PageRank doesn`t flow through every link. So all the links pointing to a page might be worthless. In that case, you`re not losing anything by noindexing the page.

    And there is no way to know which links pass PageRank.
  • Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: It looks like there are much more impressions when errors are being fixed so I was wondering because it seems to directly affect traffic
  • Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: And thank you so much for replying!
  • Michael Martinez: You cannot track and measure PageRank so there is no point in trying.

    The performance indicator you CAN track is referral traffic from the search engine. Focus on that.

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