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Hey guys, I'm having an issue for the past few months. I keep getting "/feed" broken links in Google Search Console (screenshot attached).
The site is a WordPress site using the YoastSEO plugin for on-page SEO and sitemap.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Did you fix it? How should I redirect these links?
Hey guys, I'm getting this weird error when I submit my sitemap to Google. It says I'm getting a 409 error in my post-sitemap.xml file (https://cleargear.com/post-sitemap.xml). But when I check it, it looks totally fine.
I am using YoastSEO to generate the sitemap.xml file.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a big deal? If so, Does anyone know how to fix?
Thanks
I've always had this question in the back of my mind as well. I'm still new to SEO but here's what I do.
For link building, I usually start with business listings and directories (about 5-10 month), after a few months of those being indexed in Google and Bing. I start with low tier backlinks from WordPress blogs that I created and link to those business links (about x1 500 word article a week). You can try to reach out to people's blogs to post on, but I've never been successful with that.
This may not be the best method, but is this what I do to see keywords more up a few ranks or even pages (depending on how difficult the keyword is).
Hope this helps.
I usually do robots.txt for Magento sites custom. But I did find a good example to use. Check out this site:https://www.magikcommerce.com/blog/set-up-robots-txt-in-magento/
I would edit anything that doesn't fit your site.
Hope this helps!
Hello Sancarlos,
I had an issue similar to this. The issue was with my SEO plugin. Are you using Wordpress?
Hello, I like the automatic scheduled report feature. I was wondering if I could send clients a small list of tasks completed on the 'insights' page of campaigns?
Every week I usually do tasks from the 'insights' section of the campaign, then I click finish when I've completed that tasks. I would like to be able to show that to clients monthly.
Is this possible?
Hey Jeff,
I just ran a quick scan of the site, it looks like you have a lot of links, pages, and directories being blocked by your robots.txt file: https://www.moregems.com/robots.txt
I would make sure the pages you want to be indexed by search engines are not being blocked in your robots.txt.
Hello, I just went through an issue like this. Are you using WordPress? Also, Do you have any SEO plug-ins installed?
Hey guys, I ended up disabling the sitemap option from YoastSEO, then installed the 'Google (XML) sitemap' plug-in. I re-submitted the sitemap to Google last night, and it came back with no issues. I'm glad to finally have this sorted out.
Thanks for all the help!
Thanks for the response. Do you think this is a robots.txt issue? Or could this be caused by the YoastSEO plugin?
Do you know if this plug-in works with YoastSEO together? Or will it cause issues?
Thank you for the response.
I just scanned the site using 'Screaming frog'. Under Internal>Directives there were zero 'no index' links. I also check for '404 errors', server 505 errors, or anything 'blocked by robots.txt'.
Google search console is still showing me that there are URL's being blocked by my sitemap. (I added a screenshot of this). When I click through, it tells me that the 'post sitemap' has over +300 warnings.
I have just deleted the YoastSEO plugin, and I am now re-installing it. hopefully, this fixes the issue.
Google Search console is telling me "Sitemap contains URLs which are blocked by robots.txt."
I don't understand why my sitemap is being blocked? My robots.txt look like this:
User-Agent: *
Disallow:
It's a WordPress site, with Yoast SEO installed. Is anyone else having this issue with Google Search console? Does anyone know how I can fix this issue?