If you go to example.com/robots.txt, that will show you the directives for search engine bots. You can also check the meta tags on individual pages to see if they’re being blocked. Best option would be Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool. If the URL Inspection tool does not explain why the page is not being … Read more
a page of my site not indexing by search console
Adding a . may be a bad idea. This issue may be causing Google to not crawl your category URLs, which can result in the “Sitemaps: No referring sitemaps detected” message you’re seeing in Google Search Console. It’s important to note that any changes to your permalink structure can impact your website’s SEO, so make … Read more
Add image or video tags to WP Sitemap
Try to go Settings –> Reading, take a look if Search Engine Visibility is checked, and in this case unchecked. Now the robots.txt has disallow only wp-admin path
Looks like one of those is the canonical URL, can you take a look at the page source and check if is there a canonical tag? <link rel=”canonical”… Also there is a setting in yoast for the sitemap https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-customize-the-sitemap-index/ and you can add your own sitemap too: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/add-external-sitemap-to-index/ Note: Duplicate content will harm your SEO … Read more
Google does not index anchor tags, only URLs. (Note that by anchor tags, I assume you mean a URL like site.com/page.html#anchor) The solution is to create a separate, static URL that displays the same content as what you would get with the anchor tag – for instance site.com/page-anchor.html. Then you can just create a page … Read more
the XML sitemaps plugin should be pulling your URL structure that you’ve set in the permalinks setting. Are you using a plugin or other method to remove the /category-name/ from the URL?
Okay, I ended up using the Google XML Sitemap plugin. You can input the post id’s of the pages you want excluded from the sitemap. I excluded the pages with null links and now Google accepts the sitemap.
Here are some additional details that step you through transfering a LAN-based wordpress site into an externally accessible site as well enabling editing the wordpress site from inside the LAN. Two important keys are router/firewall modifications and the “wait 10+ minutes” after making the changes at the end. -using ssh to log into your server … Read more