Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
The feeds on your site are not returning a 404 not found status.
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.
Also, if you wanted to disable them on your site, you can follow this guide:
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-disable-rss-feed/
Alternatively, you can disallow bots from crawling the feed URLs from the robots.txt file at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt
User-Agent: *
Disallow: */feed/
Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site to reflect the changes.
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hey, prefer the code option, but when I implemented it, the code seems not to be working properly, it showed me some sort of error and not showing the embedded home page link as it should… This is what i see https://ibb.co/NTHD9HR
i think the link of code where it carried the home page link to be embedded is somehow incorrect or it not up to the current PHP version writing standard… Any help please
The reason I did not optin for the plugin is that one only has 3 options either to redirect to the home page all RSS links or totally turn off or return a 404 … are this option really good and will they not affect my SEO in some way?
Hello,
That indicates the code is working and the feed is now disabled.
Yes, this will not significantly affect your SEO. If Google is still crawling that feed URL, you can implement the robots.txt rule my colleague presented.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
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.
