Why is my wp-uploads folder flagged as thin content?
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SIte Crawl is flagging multiple entries from my wp-uploads directory as being 'thin content': these are dated folders that contain the images for the site blog, and as such don't have any text/html content at all. Should these directories be crawled at all? How would I go about correcting these warnings?
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Yeost could be your problem here, do you use it?
7.2 turned it on its head and redirected the media to a page of its own creating thin content. This is a larger problem than just MOZ, it affects your google index. Yeost released a plugin that eventually deindexes the pages. Check their site for mor information on how to fix the problem.
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Hi there,
If you don't want us to visit those pages, you can certainly block our crawler, rogerbot, from those areas in your robots.txt file. We use a separate crawler from Google and blocking us will not impact any other company's crawler. Read more about managing rogerbot here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/what-is-rogerbot
You could also simply hit "Ignore" for those issues as they appear in your site crawl. That will prevent them from being reported without needing to block us in the robots file.
I hope that helps!
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Asking for HELP FROM MOZ
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Do not block Rogerbot from crawling your /wp-content/uploads/ or /wp-content/ it will block Google as well. Tom
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Hi,
**Do not block Rogerbot from crawling your /wp-content/uploads/ or /wp-content/ it will block Google as well.**
wp-uploads is /wp-content/uploads/ so that is wp-content too.
- WordPress stores all your image and media uploads in the
/wp-content/uploads/
folder. By default, uploads are organized folders/year/month/
Are you 100% certain it is flagging photographs as thin content? Not prior in the wp-content folder?
if you are unsure be sure to check here to see if you can change the photo upload folder to something else
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_upload_dir/
- https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-wordpress-file-and-directory-structure/
- https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-custom-upload-dir/
/ |- index.php |- wp-admin | `- wp-admin.css |- wp-blog-header.php |- wp-comments-post.php |- wp-commentsrss2.php |- wp-config.php |- wp-content | |- cache | |- plugins | |- themes | `- uploads |- wp-cron.php |- wp-includes `- xmlrpc.php Hope this helps, Tom
- WordPress stores all your image and media uploads in the
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I would block those directories from being crawled by Roger Bot. The thin content warning is a false positive. You can block Roger Bot from crawling those pages within your robots.txt file.
I hope that helps you out some.
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