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April 22, 2024 at 12:02 am #1440468
Hi,
I just made a new website in Enfold (I have built about 30 Enfold sites!) and I was just notified that some strange urls are indexing in Google. See screenshot link. The host has asked me to check if you know what this is/how to remedy it?
Thanks, AnneApril 22, 2024 at 6:48 am #1440479Hey Anne,
Thank you for the inquiry.
You may need to create a robots.txt file to establish specific rules for search engines and determine whether certain files are allowed to be indexed or not.
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Noindex: /wp-content/ Noindex: /wp-includes/
Please check the links below for more info and examples:
// https://kriesi.at/support/topic/google-reporting-s-pages-in-gsc/#post-1170963
// https://kriesi.at/support/topic/broken-css-link-warning-in-ahrefs-crawl/#post-1418689More info about robots.txt:
// https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt
Best regards,
IsmaelApril 23, 2024 at 1:44 am #1440546Hi,
this is not something I understand so I would have to get a developer involved.
I’m trying to understand why this would suddenly happen on a new build on a server that has not experienced this before with Enfold. Nothing different about the website. Do you know? Is it an Enfold issue?
Thanks for your help,
AnneApril 23, 2024 at 4:18 am #1440556Hi,
Thank you for the update.
This issue is not directly linked to the theme. It simply indicates that the server files are exposed to search engines. As mentioned earlier, it requires additional configuration in the robots.txt file.
Did you leave the Settings > Reading > Search engine visibility > Discourage search engines from indexing this site option disabled while editing the site? If this remains disabled, search engines can crawl the wp-content files and include them in the index. It’s recommended to enable this option while building the site.
For additional assistance with SEO-related tasks, you can contact our partner, Codeable.
// https://kriesi.at/contact/customization
In the meantime, please review this documentation for more info about robot.txt file:
// https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/search-engine-optimization/#robots-txt-optimization
Best regards,
IsmaelApril 23, 2024 at 4:35 am #1440557Thank you for explaining further – I will look into this,
thanks,
AnneApril 23, 2024 at 8:50 am #1440568 -
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