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  • February 17, 2016 at 4:54 pm #584831
    KVSchneppenheim

    Hello,
    my SISTRIX crawler found a problem with my site. For every searchpage there is a hidden backlink to mysite.com/search <- but this site doesn’t exist. This means I am heavily linking to 404-pages. How can I fix this. Below in the private content there is a screenshot showing example URLs pointing to the mentioned non existent page.

    February 20, 2016 at 7:20 am #586415
    Ismael

    Hey KVSchneppenheim!

    Thank you for using Enfold.

    Why is there a search query string on every page? I’m referring to the “?s=” appended to the url. I checked it on another seo tool but I don’t see the same error: https://www.woorank.com/en/www/camicama.com

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    February 21, 2016 at 3:20 pm #586677
    KVSchneppenheim

    You don’t see this error there because this is not a crawler who crawled our whole page. The URL looks like this when you perform a search on our website. http://www.camicama.com/?s=keywords and on this page there is a link to the above shown URL, which is nonexistent.

    February 23, 2016 at 4:24 am #587535
    Ismael

    Hi!

    Disallow the “/search” results page from being indexed so that it won’t affect the site’s seo. Here’s why: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-results/

    And here’s a plugin that you can use to configure the robot.txt file: https://yoast.com/noindexfollow-your-wordpress-search-result-pages/

    Regards,
    Ismael

    February 23, 2016 at 5:54 am #587556
    KVSchneppenheim

    I already have SEO by yoast installed and there is not much to change as you can see here: http://i.imgur.com/vTiVYFB.png

    February 25, 2016 at 8:47 am #588813
    Ismael

    Hi!

    Do you have a robot.txt file in the site’s root directory? If you don’t have one, try to create a robot.txt file then disallow the robots from indexing the search pages.

    http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
    http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

    Example:

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?s=

    This will disallow the robots from crawling the /search directory and everything with the ?s= query string.

    Regards,
    Ismael

    February 29, 2016 at 1:57 pm #590720
    KVSchneppenheim

    Indeed I have a robots.txt which is accessible via http://camicama.com/robots.txt , but the file is not located in the root folder of my directory. I can’t find the robots.txt and I assume that this file is generated dynamically because of the “SEO by yoast” plugin.

    March 7, 2016 at 1:59 pm #594296
    Ismael

    Hey!

    Look for it outside the public_html folder. The file should be located in root directory of the file server, not the wp root directory.

    Regards,
    Ismael

    August 3, 2017 at 11:48 pm #834104
    ozyazgane

    hello..

    as soon as i use enfold child theme, i shouldnt make an changes on public_html folder. Therefore what can i do?

    August 5, 2017 at 8:05 am #834621
    Rikard

    Hi ozyazgane,

    I’m not sure I understand what you mean by that, could you try to explain a bit further please?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    August 5, 2017 at 9:26 am #834653
    ozyazgane

    hi rikard.

    i couldnt explain my problem in my last message. My problem is i can not find te file robots.txt to change. When i check my sites seo score on some sites, they tell me that i have a file robots.txt. yes there is one file called robots.txt however, i can not find where to add that html code.

    additional information if necesary: i have yoast seo plug in

    August 6, 2017 at 8:38 am #834975
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Ok, thanks for the feedback. Maybe this will help you out? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062596?hl=en

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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