Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The Feeds are usually generated by WordPress. If you to disable the feeds on your site, you can try to follow the guidelines from this URL:
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-disable-rss-feed/
Or, you can use a plugin like this one to completely disable the RSS feeds on your website: https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-rss-feed/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
I have the same problem. And I don’t really understand your suggestion. If I disable the RSS Feeds generated by WordPress, how will they otherwise be generated? Is Rank Math generating RSS Feeds? I want to keep my RSS Feed, but I too ant to get rid of those http://www.homepage.com/page1/feed URL’s, because they throw a lot of errors in Googles Search Console.
Thanks.
Hello @allesroger,
Thank you for reaching out to us here.
In that case, you may use the following rule in your robots.txt file to prevent Google from crawling your feed URLs.
User-Agent: *
Disallow: */feed/
Here’s how you can edit the robots.txt file using Rank Math:
https://rankmath.com/kb/add-sitemaps-to-robots-txt/#num-2-2-navigate-to-edit-robots-txt
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you.
Hi. And thanks. I will stop the crawling with your suggestion. But anyway the „wrong“ feeds are still there. Which leads to the situation that I now have a http://www.site.net/feed which is correct and a http://www.site.net/feed/ which is incorrect ne leads to visitors fetching the wrong feed. Please just stop creating those /feed/ URLs. Or explain why they are there in the first place
Hello,
@allesroger Rank Math does not have a feature to create RSS feeds on your site.
Feed URLs are not created for humans, but for RSS feed crawlers and readers. They are only basic code versions of your actual content pages.
If you have feed pages, ensure that they are not set to index. You do not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most not likely not show them to users anyways.
If you’re using the http://www.site.net/feed on your site (without a slash at the end), then you may need to get in touch with your web host to ensure that the trailing slash version is redirecting properly.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Woaw, Can t you, Rankmath be CLEAR about this issue. How we can fix this!!! Arent Rank math a tool to HELP with SEO?
So how TO fix this!!!
Fair enough if you do not KNOW, but then stop write confusing and contradicting comments!
These options do not remove the feed URLS, the feed urls are still there, but now they have this content
<error>
wp_die
<title>WordPress › error</title>
<message>
No feed available, Please visit our homepage!
</message>
<data>
<status>500</status>
</data>
</error>
As Soren is implying. Those feed URLs are false. They are recognized in the Google Search Console are false and they weaken SEO. So I still I don’t have any clue, why they need to be there and why I have to hide them. Just don’t generate them or tell us, why they are generated after all.
Hello,
That’s the way WordPress feeds work. If you add /feed/ after any URL then it will generate an RSS feed file. Our plugin isn’t generating them and these URLs shouldn’t get discovered by Google.
However, if Google is discovering them for your sites, you can check the referring page in the URL inspection tool of your GSC account to figure out how Google is finding them. We have already provided the best solution to prevent Google from crawling such URLs and mitigate the issue. It isn’t in control of our plugin to disable such URLs.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need our assistance with anything else.
I don’t really think so. WordPress builds feeds like this: http://www.homepage.com/feed/ and nothing else. Since the installation of Rank Math there are hundreds of these: http://www.homepage.com/article/feed/ I didn’t add /feed/ behind every article and I think WordPress didn’t either. So where do these URLs come from?
Hello,
By default WordPress generates all kinds of RSS feeds that are built in, such as:
http://example.com/feed/
http://example.com/feed/rss/
http://example.com/feed/rss2/
http://example.com/feed/rdf/
http://example.com/feed/atom/
You can learn more about these feeds here: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/wordpress-feeds/
You can disable the feed by following this article: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-disable-rss-feed/
As my colleague said, Rank Math doesn’t creates those URLs. Please follow the above article to disable the feed feature.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
