Why does my site have so many crawl errors relating to the wordpress login / captcha page
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Going through the crawl of my site, there were around 100 medium priority issues, such as title element too short, and duplicate page title, and around 80 high priority issues relating to duplicate page content - However every page listed with these issues was the site's wordpress login / captcha page. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
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Thank you all, have disallowed it in the Robots.txt, will wait till the next crawl and see if this has resolved the problem.
Cheers!
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Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.
It looks like you've already got some good answers here, but if you're still looking for clarification or a bit more help, feel free to write in to help@moz.com with the details of your campaign and we'll do what we can to sort things out!
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Mike and Dmytro answered this really well. It should be blocked in robots.txt
But also, you might be linking to your login page publicly. I often see links to login or for "admin" in wordpress themes in a sidebar, widget or footer. You should probably remove those as well (unless you allow public users to create their own account and log in).
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I agree with Mike. You shouldn't really allow bots to try and access wp-admin / captcha pages.
I would suggest adding the following line in your Robots.txt file: Disallow: /wp-admin/
You can also do the same to the captcha page or noindex the page.
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Normally I would NoIndex and/or disallow in Robots.txt a page like that.
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