Google Console warning about following link

  • Resolved Adam

    (@ahardy42)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    I just got a new message from Google Search Console which tells me:

    https://carbonwatchdog.org/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https://carbonwatchdog.org/proposal/
URL Inspection warning: URL is on Google, but has issues
Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt
Referring page https://carbonwatchdog.org/proposal/

    I’ve not had this come up before with my login page and I’m not sure I can solve this the way Google is telling me to – by adding “nofollow” tags to the login page.

    Can I put nofollow tags on the anchor via the menu?

    Thanks!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support Muhammad Arslan

    (@wparslan)

    Hi @ahardy42
    Kindly check your robots.txt file for “Disallow:”
    If you found Disallow: /URL then change the Disallow to Allow: /URL.

    This link may come in handy in resolving the issue as well.
    indexed though blocked by robots txt

    Thank You. ??

    Thread Starter Adam

    (@ahardy42)

    Hi Muhammad,

    I don’t have a robots.txt on my system, WordPress generates it. This is what it looks like:

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://carbonwatchdog.org/sitemap_index.xml
    Thread Starter Adam

    (@ahardy42)

    Wow that link you gave is hard core. I had to keep thinking about what ‘canonical’ meant, i.e. I’m not sure I’m any wiser now.

    So because WordPress is putting the Disallow: /URL into robots.txt, it is causing an error? But I can’t edit robots.txt myself, since it’s generated. I found a plugin called “Virtual Robots.txt” which I played around with but I’m not confident about it so I removed it again.

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