Feed URL Issue in search console

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  • Resolved Anonymous
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    I used to have Yoast on my website mappians.com but Now I am using Rank math as it has a lot of features. But currently, I am facing Feed URL 404 error in the Google search console. Not 3/4 but 72 and I am afraid of having more in the future. So how can I resolve it from the root or is it beneficial to have a feed URL, If not why Google is indexing this kind of URL? Kindly explain me in detail

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Please note that the feed URLs are only the basic code versions of your actual content pages. You will not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most not likely not show them to users anyways.

    If you wanted to disable them on your site, you can follow this guide:
    https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-disable-rss-feed/

    Alternatively, you can disallow bots from crawling the feed URLs from the robots.txt file at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt

    User-Agent: *
    Disallow: */feed/
    

    Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site to reflect the changes.

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thank you.

    Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    Is there any SEO impact if I disallow?

    Hello,

    As we already mentioned above that the feed URLs are only the basic code versions of your actual content pages. So, if you disallow them, it will not create any impact on your SEO.

    Also, if you have a large number of feed URLs and Googlebot started crawling them, it could waste your crawl budget on feed URLs rather than actual pages.

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
     
    Thank you.

    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.

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