How should i handle /feed URLs that are reported in Search Console?

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  • Resolved Toomas Kaupmees
    Rank Math free

    How should i handle /feed URLs that are reported in Search Console?

    I get tons of urls ending with /feed in Search Console in reports like Duplicate without user-selected canonical and Crawled – currently not indexed. I use wordpress with Rankmath SEO plugin.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Feed URLs are only the basic code versions of your actual content pages. You will not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most not likely not show them to users anyway.

    If you want 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.

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

    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.

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