Not All Crawl Errors Are Created Equal
Some SEO "experts" see 2,000 crawl errors in Google Search Console and have a meltdown.
Calm down.
A 404 on a page nobody links to and nobody visits? Not urgent. A 500 error on your highest-traffic landing page? Drop everything.
The Errors That Actually Hurt
Server errors (5xx) on important pages. These tell Google your site is unreliable. Fix immediately.
Soft 404s on pages you want indexed. Google thinks the page is empty. Check your content and server response codes.
Redirect errors — loops, chains, or redirects to broken pages. Every redirect in a chain costs you crawl equity and load time. Read our redirect chains guide for the fix.
Blocked resources that Google needs to render your page. CSS, JavaScript, images that are disallowed in robots.txt.
How to Prioritize
Sort by importance, not quantity. Fix errors on pages that get traffic, have backlinks, or target important keywords first.
A single 500 error on your money page matters more than 500 404s on obsolete blog posts.
Use Search Console, Screaming Frog, or Ahrefs to find them. Then use seocheckup.app to track your fixes. 113 tasks. Free. 30 seconds to set up.