Hello,
Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The affected URLs are with the query parameters and they are supposed to have the canonical set as the main URL. However, they shouldn’t be discovered by Google. You can add the following rules to your robots.txt file in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling such URLs:
Disallow: *?query=*
Disallow: *?fbclid=*`
You may also refer to this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/
As for the rest of the URLs, you need to ensure that they are not being used as a hyperlink within your website’s content. Meaning, please check your website content if they are not used as a link.
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
We’ve checked your https://alightmotion.net/alight-motion-pc/// URL and we can see that Google already indexed your https://alightmotion.net/alight-motion-pc/ URL on SERPs. In this case, you can make a redirection from https://alightmotion.net/alight-motion-pc/// to https://alightmotion.net/alight-motion-pc/.
Regarding the https://alightmotion.net/alight-motion-apk-download, we can see the canonical URL of this page is pointing to your homepage and that’s why this page is showing under the Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag. In order to resolve this issue, please clear the canonical of this page from the Rank Math SEO meta box Advance tab, and after that Rank Math will automatically add a self-referencing canonical for this page.
Here’s a URL for more details on this issue: https://rankmath.com/kb/alternate-page-with-proper-canonical-tag/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
We can see that the URLs are actually your images and feed. Regarding the URLs are from images, you can see they are inside the page indexing report. So essentially, Google found the image URLs mentioned somewhere on your website but since those are images they will always remain in this status, even if they are already indexed because those reports are only for pages.
You can see the explanation from the Google product experts here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/181200937/crawled-currently-not-indexed-images?hl=en
For the feed URLs, they are not created for humans, but for RSS feed crawlers and readers. They are only basic code versions of your actual content pages. You can add the following filter on the website to set the feed URLs to noindex:
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'noindex_feeds' );
function noindex_feeds() {
if ( ! is_feed() ) {
return;
}
header( 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex', true );
However, please note that when you set noindex to your feed URLs that means Google will not index them on SERPs, but Google will still be able to crawl those URLs. If you don’t want Google to crawl those URLs then you can add the following disallow rule to your robots.txt file.
Disallow: */feed/
Here’s a guide on how to edit your robots.txt using Rank Math:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/
Once done, allow Google some time to re-crawl your site to reflect the changes.
Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Thanks almost I understand all things and fix many things . But kindly tell me whewre i add this code in my website
add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘noindex_feeds’ );
function noindex_feeds() {
if ( ! is_feed() ) {
return;
}
header( ‘X-Robots-Tag: noindex’, true );
Hello,
The sitemaps are not supposed to be indexed in the SERPs and that’s why they are set as Noindex. You can ignore the error for those URLs.
https://alightmotion.net/download-alight-motion-mod-apk/ is set to Noindex. Please edit the page and set it as Index. For the paginate pages, please navigate to WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Misc Pages and disable the Noindex Subpages and Noindex Paginated Single Pages option to set them to Index.
And you can use the following guide to add the filter to your site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Hope that helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.
here is the screenshot of page :https://imgur.com/a/ToUTSKS
Kindly tell me whihc option is enabel or disabled thank you
Hello,
The Noindex Subpages and Noindex Paginated Single Pages options are already disabled on your site and we can see your paginated pages are also set to index now.
If you’re still facing “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag” error for your paginated pages then try to clear your website cache including any server-level cache and revalidate the issue in your Google Search Console account.
Regarding the https://alightmotion.net/download-alight-motion-mod-apk/ URL, please set this page index from the Rank Math SEO Meta box Advance tab: https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-tab/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your help almost all issue is clear
Hello,
Those URLs you have shared are indeed redirecting to their closest or similar slug, and the redirects are from WordPress.
It is an auto-redirect feature of WordPress that redirects the URLs to their closest slug if the one entered doesn’t exist.
You can use the filter given below in your theme’s functions.php file to disable that:
remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');
Please note when the redirect is removed, those URLs you have shared will show 404 instead.
With that filter, the WordPress “autocomplete” feature which redirects posts is going to be turned off and has some SEO benefits that you have to consider before disabling it completely.
You might consider something similar to what is mentioned in this reply on StackOverflow: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/92104
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Is it good partics to remove this filter from wordpress? If i remove this filter form my website is my website effected or lose the trfffice? Or if i remove this filter after that i manul rediite the 404 errror is it good ?
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Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
