Hello,
Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.
We would love to assist you with this issue of yours but first, please provide screenshots of all the error reports you see on your GSC using this tool https://imgur.com/
Also, share the affected URLs here with us so we can take a look.
Looking forward to helping your with this one.
Hello,
Please note that the “Crawled – currently not indexed” message means that Google has found the URLs but has not yet decided whether to index them. You can follow the URLs below that explain these in detail: https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/
Regarding the feed URLs, they are only 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 anyways.
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.
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Do you think that addresses with feeds didn’t allow search engines to delete old URLs even though I removed them 6 months ago?
If yes and I solve the problem of no traffic, I will have solved the problem that afflicted me on two sites in two years.
Hello,
If you have already added the disallow rule in your robots.txt file before, then you may need to check the referring page to determine where are they coming from.
You should use the URL inspection tool of your GSC account to find the referring page and figure out how Google is finding these URLs:
https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome?action=inspect
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Sorry I did not understand.
Hello,
You can submit the feed URL in the URL inspection tool here: https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome?action=inspect
And once you see the report, kindly check the referring page so we can determine how Google is still able to discover that page:
We really look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
It appears that Google hasn’t provided a reason for how they have crawled this. I can confirm that the affected page is not present on any article content or in the Sitemap so you may need to wait further for Google to acknowledge that this URL is no longer existing on your website.
With that said, this type of URL report on your GSC should not cause issues with your site’s current ranking.
Looking forward to helping you.
Unfortunately I still have many problems on Search Console.
The urls with feed continue to be seen by Search Console, even though Rank Math made me put the rule in robots.txt.
I have urls that are valid but not indexed and urls that I deleted but are not 404ed or removed from the list.
Please help me. It’s a serious problem that I’ve been carrying around for 3 years and I don’t think it’s my fault. I asked around many times and people blamed my SEO. I’ve worked a lot on SEO, but in my opinion I have problems that prevent search engines from doing their job.
Hello,
The URLs like https://giocone.com/puzzle-games/ are not returning a 404 error. They are returning a 200 ok status but only showing a blank page. Google needs to see content to index the URLs or a 404 error if they don’t exist.
Also, the other issues listed are mostly crawled – currently not indexed. In this case, there is nothing much you can do other than wait for Google to decide to index the URLs. Most of the pages of your site are indexed in the SERPs. Also, there is another rule added for all user agents in your robots.txt file and it can make the rules added before invalid:
Please edit your robots.txt file and remove the second user-agent rule so Google considers the first rule that is blocking Google from crawling feed URLs.
Hope that helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.
Which rule automatically added by Wp-Optimize should I remove? the second and third line?
In any case this solution has NEVER solved the problems I have.
Hello,
You should remove the second line shown in the screenshot above to prevent the previous ones from getting skipped:
User-agent: *
The final file should look like this:
User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: */feed/
Sitemap: https://giocone.com/sitemap_index.xml
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json
As for the other issues you reported from Google Search Console, we already explained above that most of them are not directly tied to Rank Math so it’s not something that we as an SEO plugin can assist in clearing them.
Most of the issues are related to the content on the pages and the fact that Google doesn’t see a good reason to index the pages even though it’s able to find them.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
I contacted 4 plugins and 2 services that were slowing down my site. The site itself wasn’t terribly slow, but evidently the speed requirements are much higher and require faster times. In particular the complete loading and responsiveness of the site.
In fact, I didn’t understand the reason for the exclusions of my posts, as the site wasn’t too slow. A few days ago, Yandex Webmaster Tool sent an email saying that the response time of pages was 3.5 seconds and above. I had noticed this slowness for some time, but the site was quite fast. I had used Pagespeed, Pingdom, Gtmetrix. The scores weren’t bad, especially on Gtmetrix, where I also get an A rating.
I used another tool and that confirmed the pages loading by 4 seconds or more for each page. In testing, I reduced the time to 1.7 seconds and from 6 seconds to 14 depending on the page for full loading. I did the tests by disabling the guilty plugins. I still have to test the theme. Perhaps the performance issue of the ads depends on the theme.
Could search engines not rank my posts because they were too slow, even though for several tools the speed wasn’t too bad?
Hello,
Yes. Speed does indeed play a role in SEO. However, Page speed is a direct ranking factor. A fact known even better since Google’s Algorithm Speed Update. However, speed can also affect rankings indirectly, by increasing the bounce rate and reducing dwell time. You can learn more about that here:
https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/22865/page-speed-seo/
So if your reports are correct, then your website should be fine since it’s reporting correctly at the PageSpeed Insights. Since PageSpeed insights is directly tied to Google and may use its data for your website.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need my 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.
