Website Indexing Issue I Need To Solve Immediately

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  • Resolved Official Website

    1 year, 5 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi there,

    Just as you know, now we are using your Rank Math tool for optimizing our website, but I found quite an interesting issue, which is on the homepage, when I add the term “page/2/” the numbers can be random, and that link is available to open but still direct to the homepage, and that makes me quite confused, and I want to know how to solve this tricky issue.

    The whole URL looks like these:
    https://www.***.com/page/1/,
    https://www.***.com/page/2/,
    https://www.***.com/page/3/…

    And the numbers after page/ are random to fill.

    The worst thing is, those not the real homepage are indexed by YANDEX, and how can I solve this, by solving this I mean, can I give this a redirect or something like that, so that when people visit the homepage like this: https://www.***.com/page/2/, it could auto directed to the homepage https://www.***.com and make all those fake homepages noindex and nofollow? Here comes the screenshot for you to check.

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  • RankBot

    1 year, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    I apologize for the issue you are facing with the indexing of your website’s pages like https://domain.com/sitemap_index.xml_ by YANDEX. To address this problem and ensure that these pages are redirected to the actual homepage, you can set up a redirect using Rank Math.

    Here’s how you can create a redirect in Rank Math to solve this issue:

    1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
    2. Navigate to Rank Math SEO > Redirections.
    3. Click on "Add New Redirection."
    4. In the Source URL field, enter the URL pattern you want to redirect, such as /page/* (to cover all pages).
    5. In the Destination URL field, enter your actual homepage URL: https://domain.com/sitemap_index.xml_.
    6. Save the redirection.

    By setting up this redirect, any requests to URLs like https://domain.com/sitemap_index.xml_ will automatically be redirected to your homepage, resolving the indexing issue with YANDEX.

    If you encounter any difficulties or need further assistance, please feel free to reach out, and we’ll be happy to help.

    Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.

    Sources:
    Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
    Why Google Displays URL Instead of Site Name in SERP? » Rank Math
    Page With Redirect – Google Search Console Status » Rank Math
    Solving Redirection Issues Using Rank Math SEO Plugin » Rank Math

    Rakibuzzaman Siam

    1 year, 5 months ago

    Hello,

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

    We’ve checked your paginated pages and we can see it is working properly without any redirection. Please check the screenshot in the sensitive data section for reference.

    However, if you want to set all of your paginated pages to Noindex, please head over to your WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Misc Pages, and from there enable the Noindex Subpages option:

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

    Official Website

    1 year, 5 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi Siam,

    This method might not be a good solution, what I want is for all those “fake” homepage subpages can not be accessed or blocked by the search engine, and for some subpages like the main category which contains all products, it might have several subpages, I still want those subpages to get indexed.

    And if I use your “WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Misc Pages” to noindex subpages, then all my category subpages can not be indexed. And that is not friendly to Google SEO.

    So do you have any other solutions?

    Reinelle

    1 year, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Your homepage is enabled for pagination, and it is set to index that’s why that kind of URL is showing on the search result.

    In this case, you can use this filter on your site to set the paginated URL of your homepage only to noindex and nofollow:

    add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
if( is_home() || is_paged() ){
$robots["index"] = 'noindex';
$robots["follow"] = 'nofollow';
}
return $robots;
});

    And here’s a guide to adding the code to the website:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

    Hope that helps.

    RankBot

    1 year, 4 months ago

    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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