Post by sneil about OnRe Tokenized Reinsurance ($ONyc)
$ONyc : OnRe's sitemap sends Google to 7 blog posts that return 404, including "The truth about OnRe"
I build websites, so I crawled all 103 URLs in onre.finance/sitemap.xml and checked status codes, titles, descriptions and preview images.
Most of the site is in good shape. The homepage and the main pages have proper titles, descriptions and preview images, every page has a canonical tag, and nothing is accidentally set to noindex.
What I found:
1) Seven blog URLs in the sitemap return "Page Not Found":
/blog/the-truth-about-onre
/blog/choosing-an-onyc-yield-strategy
/blog/onycs-best-use-case
/blog/the-onre-market-on-kamino-one-year-of-growth
/blog/understanding-solanas-onchain-yield-coin
/blog/where-models-end-and-underwriting-begins
/blog/from-yield-chasing-to-collateral-grade-assets
Google keeps hitting these from the sitemap, and anyone who saved or shared one of those links lands on a dead page. For a yield product, a missing post called "The truth about OnRe" looks worse than it probably is.
2) /resources/style-system is public and listed in the sitemap. It looks like Webflow's internal style guide page, with no description, and it shouldn't be indexed.
3) The five blog category pages (/blog-category/announcements, ecosystem, education, insights, partnerships) are all titled just "OnRe", with no description and no preview image. In search results and link previews they are impossible to tell apart.
4) The three legal pages spell the brand "On Re" in their titles ("Privacy Policy | On Re"), while the rest of the site uses "OnRe".
5) The "ONyc Launches on Kamino" post has 4 H1 headings and the Loopscale vault post has 2. Every other page has one.
Suggestions: republish the seven posts or 301 them to the closest live article, and if the Webflow sitemap is auto-generated, it should pick up the change after the next publish. Turn off "Include in sitemap" and indexing for the style guide page. Add a title and description template to the blog category collection, for example "Announcements | OnRe". Fix the "On Re" spelling and use one H1 per post.
Question: were these seven posts unpublished on purpose? If any of them were replaced by newer ones, pointing the old URLs at the new posts would keep their links working.