I have a WordPress website (https://www.thorsolutions.at) and I want some subpages like the imprint, my privacy policy, my conditions (https://www.thorsolutions.at/datenschutz/) and some testing pages not to be found on Google. I did some research and tried it with the Yoast SEO tool. I can see, that the noidex tag is set properly, but I absolutely have no clue why the subpages are still showen.
Any ideas?
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When WordPress website Home Page displays the latest posts, the Rank Math SEO Plugin Sitemap contains the Home Page URL (https://website.com/) twice. In "page_sitemap.xml" and "post_sitemap.xml".
I created a static page and blog page as a test, and from settings I selected "Home Page as Homepage" and "Blog Page as Posts Page".
The same thing happened, the Blog Page URL (https://website.com/blog/) duplicated twice in "page_sitemap.xml" and "post_sitemap.xml".
Logically the Page URL must be in "page_sitemap.xml" only.
Why this is happening and If this is wrong, could you please guide me to the best practices to do?
When you see your homepage both at page-sitemap and post-sitemap, that might be happening because you've selected WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading > Your homepage displays to your latest posts. The sitemap should have chosen a static page but choosing that option will show the latest posts on that page. So the homepage is both a homepage (included in page-sitemap) and a posts page (included in post-sitemap), and logically that's correct.
But It’s fine, and that shouldn’t cause any SEO issues, as it simply tells Google to crawl the site. But at some point, Google will count the same URL in different sitemap files separately, which could sometimes lead to the number of URLs in your sitemaps being less than the number of URLs counted as being indexed. The same URL in multiple sitemaps is counted separately, which is why you could see something like this.
However, creating a static page for the homepage and a blog page should work.
In your case, this might be happening due to a caching issue. You can try clearing the sitemap cache and excluding the sitemap from caching.
#Steps:
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
3. If the above steps doesn't seem to work, kindly apply the following filter code to your site.
`add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');`
Here's how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
I am facing a weird issue in WordPress, I have to 2 URL's
xyz.com/features/feature-details - this is a page link
xyz.com/blog/feature-details-using-xyz - this is a blog link
Now the issue here is when someone opens the blog link then page which renders has both features page and blog page rendered one below the other. But when someone visits the feature page it loads properly.
The solutions which I already tried are as follows:
I tried clearing the slug
I tried re-naming the URL of the Page and Blog both
I have tried clearing the cache
The problem is happening with all the url's which has some part of the url in common i.e. 'feature-details' in the above example.
Is there anything that I am missing or doing wrong?
On a WordPress website which I have inherited from another development company, authors have pages which can be visited. Using Advanced Custom Fields each author has various fields to add content such as their image, bio, contact details etc.
The authors single page works as expected, pulling through all relevant information. The issue I am having is that these pages have somehow been paginated. This means the same page has multiple URLs e.g website.com/author-name/ and website.com/author-name/page/2/.
This issue flagged up in google search console as an error. If it helps, the website uses the 'User Role Editor' plugin and Yoast SEO (which is adding rel_next and rel_prev tags to the pages in question). I have already tried disabling these to see if they are causing the issue but no luck. Any ideas?
my website has pages in google, such as .../page/2/ .../page/3/, and it shows the same content as the homepage which is terrible for SEO purposes.
Does anyone know how to remove those pages somehow? I have never created them but it's just showing the homepage content..
I have a single page Wordpress site, it takes all content on the homepage from other posts. I have yoast plugin installed but i'm wondering do I enter the keywords on each of these posts and place a 301 redirect so that when it appears it goes only to the homepage or do I non-index these posts and place the keywords on the page that is taking in these posts?
Thanks for any help
If you edit the meta description in Yoast or AIO SEO, it will display it instead of your latest posts information in the Google search results.
Use this tool to assist you in creating a perfect looking SERP result: http://dejanseo.com.au/serp-preview-tool/