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
This is probably due to empty lines inside your custom php files. Try checking every php file you edited for empty lines after the ?> closing tag: the tag should be the last character of any file.
WordPress site using Yoast SEO being blocked from indexing by robots.txt