Hello,
I apologize for the issue you are facing with the unknown URLs in Google Search Console. To investigate the unknown URLs and determine if they are generated by Rank Math, you can follow these steps:
- Log into your Google Search Console.
- Navigate to the Indexing section and then to Pages.
- Check the Not indexed tab to see the list of URLs that are not indexed.
- Look for the unknown URLs in the list and check if they are marked as 404 errors or soft 404 errors.
If you find these unknown URLs listed as soft 404 errors, they might be related to Rank Math. You can also check the Soft 404 error status in Google Search Console to identify if these URLs are being flagged as soft 404 errors.
If you need further assistance or clarification, please feel free to reply here, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you promptly.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Sources:
How to Fix the Submitted URL Seems to Be a “Soft 404” Error » Rank Math
Why GSC Shows "No Referring Sitemaps Detected"
How to Find Out Where 404 Errors Are Coming From » Rank Math
Solving Redirection Issues Using Rank Math SEO Plugin » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Rank Math doesn’t generate any paginated pages on your website. However, you can use the URL inspection tool of your GSC account to check the URL and view the referring page to make sure from where it is coming.
Once you know the referring page, you can unlink or remove it so Google won’t discover it again.
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for the update.
It seems like these URLs are being generated due to some form of pagination on your site, but they are not created by Rank Math. They might be coming from a plugin or theme functionality.
To address this, you can check your theme settings and other plugins for pagination settings.
You may also implement redirects for these 404 URLs to relevant pages.
Lastly, you can use the robots.txt file to block Google from crawling these paginated URLs. Here are the robots.txt directives you can use:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: *c=index*
Disallow: *m=content*
Disallow: *a=show*
Here’s how you edit your robots.txt in Rank Math plugin: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/
If you need further assistance, feel free to reach out.
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.
