Hello,
Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The admin-ajax.php file is used by WordPress to refresh data on pages without reloading the pages. Without that, you would need to hand-load the files you need, which is a complicated process.
In short, it’s used just for the AJAX calls on the website, which pretty much all plugins and themes use.
Hence, we don’t recommend to redirect the admin-ajax.php file on your site.
However, I checked your website’s robots.txt file and the setup for robots.txt is perfectly fine as it should be. Google seems to be trying a direct crawl of the URL. Since there should be no pages at that URL, the page crawler shouldn’t find any. So in this case, a 4xx status is entirely fine and makes sense. Therefore, you can avoid fixing Blocked due to other 4xx issue for this URL, as technically it is not broken.
Don’t worry, a 4XX error for this URL will not affect your indexing and ranking.
Meanwhile, you can wait for a re-crawl of your website and hopefully, the issue should go away.
You may try visiting the URL below to learn more: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/180548114
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for that very concise, and extremely helpful reply!
Cheers,
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
