Hello,
Thank you so much for getting in touch.
If you see that error in your Google Search Console account, it means that Google has found identical or very similar content on your website but has not been able to determine which page is the original/canonical version.
This can happen for a number of reasons, but the most common is usually due to structural issues on your website (e.g. duplicate content in your sitemap or multiple pages with the same title tag).
To fix this, you can follow our guide in our knowledge base article: https://rankmath.com/kb/duplicate-without-user-selected-canonical/
Looking forward to helping you.
I have reviewed these instructions, but the links listed in my google search console are not actual pages. They are two pages, both black with some text on them. I think they are “feed” pages.
Hello,
Thank you for your patience.
Could you please share the affected URLs and the image of the report so we can check as well?
You can upload screenshots using this tool and add the link here.
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Following up on status of this?
Hello,
Apologies for the delay, as this ticket seems to have been stuck in our drafts section for some reason.
Feed URLs are only the basic code versions of your actual content pages and are generated by WordPress. You will not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most likely not show them to users anyway.
You can add a noindex x-robots-tag to your feed headers instead. Adding the following code to the bottom of your server .htaccess file should work:
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<If "%{THE_REQUEST} =~ m#/feed/?#">
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</If>
</IfModule>
Please do take a complete backup of your website before modifying your .htaccess as it is a sensitive file.
Alternatively, if you want to completely disable them on your site, you can follow this guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/disable-rss-feeds/
Looking forward to helping you.
Ok, I did that. I will validate again and see if that works.
Hello,
Sure, let us know how this goes.
Meanwhile, if you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime so we can assist you further.
Looking forward to helping 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.
