help me disable 404 monitor not clearing the logs but disabling it completely

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  • Resolved Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    Hello please help me disable 404 monitor. We don’t want any redirect on our website. This is causing issues with our Google Search Console. On the dashboard we can’t figure out how to turn it off, that is, when we navigate to 404 monitor in general settings there is no option to turn it off. Even after clearing the logs, it still redirecting. you can give us a code to turn it off. this issue is killing me 🙁 Please assist us

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  • RankBot

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the trouble you’re facing with the 404 monitor. I understand that you want to disable it completely to avoid any redirects on your website.

    To disable the 404 monitor in Rank Math, you can follow these steps:

    1. Go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Rank Math SEO > General Settings > 404 Monitor.
    2. In the 404 Monitor settings, you should see an option to switch between “Simple” and “Advanced” modes. To disable the 404 monitor completely, you can switch to the “Simple” mode.

    If you’re unable to find the option to disable the 404 monitor, please use the available buttons to assign this ticket to a human agent from our support team. They will be able to provide further assistance with disabling the 404 monitor or provide you with a code to turn it off.

    Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention, and we’ll do our best to assist you further.

    Sources:
    How to Monitor 404 Errors with Rank Math SEO Plugin
    Rank Math General Settings
    How to Find Out Where 404 Errors Are Coming From » Rank Math
    How to Fix the ‘Blocked Due to Other 4xx Issue’ Error » Rank Math

    Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    the AI reply is misleading. clearing the logs does not disable the 404 monitor. We don’t want it completely.

    Kind Regards

    Rakibuzzaman Siam

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello,

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

    Please note that the 404 Monitor in Rank Math only logs the URLs that return a 404 error. Even if you disable the 404 monitor, the 404 errors will be the same.

    However, if you still want to disable that, please head over to your WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard > Help, and from there disable the 404 Monitor module:

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

    Anonymous

    1 year, 7 months ago

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    the solution didn’t work. this is how this redirect is working, every time I request a page like https//www.competitionclean.com/cont the user will be redirected to the contact us page, or to the nearest page that has the closest terms. Not sure if you can get me. This issue is affecting our ranking as google has marked the majority of our important pages as having coverage problems due to redirects. After my investigation as a developer, I realized the issue was being caused by the 404 monitor. Even after turning off the above switch, it didn’t work, we are going to try re-installing the plugin again, if it doesn’t work we shall opt Yoast SEO but that wasn’t our wish. We love all the features of the rank math apart from 404 monitor

    Reinelle

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for your patience.

    The redirect is not being handled by Rank Math, but instead, it is coming from the WordPress native function to auto-complete similar URLs on your site

    auto

    You can use this tool to check it as well: https://httpstatus.io/

    To fix this, you may follow the steps in any of the guides below to stop WordPress auto-correcting the URL and return a 404 instead:
    https://neliosoftware.com/blog/devtips-how-to-stop-wordpress-from-guessing-urls/
    https://typerocket.com/disable-wordpress-automatic-or-random-redirect-guessing-of-404s/

    Hope that helps.

    RankBot

    1 year, 6 months ago

    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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