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Do I have a problem with missing pages in Screaming Frog?
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We have category pages and some of those pages have pagination due to us having additional items. Screaming Frog could not find the items that were after page 1. Is this a problem for Google? These item pages are still in the sitemap. I am sure they can find them to index them but does it hurt rankings at all.
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Check your settings in Screaming Frog for obeying robots.txt, obeying canonicals, etc. That might be your problem.
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Big Fan!
Yes the pages are in the Google Index, I'll message you the URLs.
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Hey Niners52! You a 49ers fan?
In my experience, yes, if ScreamingFrog cannot crawl those pages, you will definitely have an issue being crawled by Google as well. Are any of those pages/items currently in Google's index?
Would you mind sharing the URL with me? If so I'd be happy to take a look into it and see if I can help further.
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