Hi,

Does anyone know if search console errors showing as follows are damaging to serps:

/xmlrpc.php is returning 405 error

/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php is returning 400 error

These errors seem to of coincided almost to the day that there was a ranking drop for the primary keyword from mid page 1 to bottom of page 2.

No matter what I do I cannot seem to correct these errors.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Nope, sorry, that site doesn't have Jetpack installed.

Checked the xmlroc file and it was identical to a new download.

Fetch as Googlebot returns an almost instant error message.

Unfortunately this did not work.

I am absolutely baffled by it. Siteground (the hosts) dont have a clue either.

Thanks Vijay,

Yes my thought was that would be the killer for the site. Thanks for the link, i will check it out.

Thanks

Dale

Hi All,

I am hoping someone might be able to help with this.

Last week one of my sites dropped from mid first day to bottom of page 1. We had not been link building as such and it only seems to of affected a single search term and the ranking page (which happens to be the home page).

When I was going through everything I went to search console and in crawl errors there are 2 errors that showed up as detected 3 days before the drop.

These are:

wp-admin/admin-ajax.php showing as response code 400 and also

xmlrpc.php showing as response code 405

robots.txt is as follows:

user-agent: *

disallow: /wp-admin/

allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Any help with what is wrong here and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks