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  • #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, Anne

    #1440479

    Hey 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-1418689

    More info about robots.txt:

    // https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    #1440546

    Hi,
    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,
    Anne

    #1440556

    Hi,

    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,
    Ismael

    #1440557

    Thank you for explaining further – I will look into this,
    thanks,
    Anne

    #1440568

    Hi,

    You’re welcome! Please feel free to open another thread if you have more questions about the theme.

    Have a nice day.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

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