Blog post url ending with date format and feed

Hello @alexsmith12,

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

Feed URLs are only the basic code versions of your actual content pages. You will not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most not likely not show them to users anyway.

If you want to disable them on your site, you can follow this guide:
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-disable-rss-feed/

Alternatively, you can disallow bots from crawling the feed URLs from the robots.txt file at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: */feed/

Regarding the date archives pages, you can simply disable the Date Archives option in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Mics Pages. Here’s a screenshot for reference:
https://i.rankmath.com/i/2n9HKX

Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site to reflect the changes.

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

Thank you for your response.

Any one option would work?

If I disallow bots from crawling the feed URLs from the robots.txt file by adding below-

User-Agent: *
Disallow: */feed/

will this work. or is it necessary to add code as well.

Also, I have already disabled the misc pages from the Rankmath plugin as shared. Still, the Google search console shows mulitple pages as Crawled – currently not indexed. Few of them are listed below-

https://ethiqueadvisory.com/blogs/2023/08/10/

https://ethiqueadvisory.com/blogs/2022/06/29/

https://ethiqueadvisory.com/blogs/2023/07/07/

Hello @alexsmith12,

The code you have shared should be enough to disallow the bots from crawling those URLs via robots.txt.

Also, your date archives are returning a 404. In Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Misc pages, we have the option to disable them and redirect them automatically to your homepage.

Here’s a guide you can check as well:
https://rankmath.com/kb/titles-and-meta/#date-archives

Hope that helps.

Thank you for your response.

as per your suggestion, disabling Misc Pages, they are automatically redirected to the home page. But in my case. date archive pages are being disabled but are not redirecting to the home page?

Is there any solution to fix this issue?

Hello @alexsmith12,

Please navigate to WP Dashboard > Rank Math SEO > General Settings > Redirections and set the Fallback Behavior as Redirect to Homepage to redirect the date archives and other 404 URLs to your homepage.

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.