Google wants to Index sharing links supplied by Jetpack

  • Using WordPress Version 5.4.2

    Yoast SEO Version 14.4.1

    and Jetpack Version 8.6.1

    I have developed a indexing problem that keeps re-occurring.

    Google Search Console keeps trying to index urls with:

    ?share=reddit&nb=1
    ?share=twitter&nb=1
    ?share=facebook&nb=1

    See Screenshot of actual errors https://cldup.com/VznXT7YFiO.png

    At the end of them.

    This Suffix is reference to the sharing feature in Jetpack.

    So I don’t know why Search Console is showing errors on 17 urls that are only including sharing suffix’s but the question for you jetpack folk is what would be causing it? as the url without the Suffix are properly indexed and in our sitemap.

    As seen in this screenshot:
    https://cldup.com/n8gkRc-32k.png

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  • Plugin Contributor James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Hm, I’m honestly not sure why Google is trying to do that.

    All of the buttons on your site properly include rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" so they shouldn’t be bothering with those links.

    Does clicking on each item in that report give you any more details?

    Thread Starter Robert Dall

    (@rdall)

    Hi James

    You can’t click on any of them. It doesn’t give you more detail other then this when I clicked the ? next to the fail title:

    Google checked for the issue instance and it’s still there. An instance can reach this state only if you explicitly clicked Validate for this issue instance; otherwise, if Google recrawled and found the issue without a validation request, it will be listed as Pending. Fix failed issues and request validation again

    I can’t fix what it’s broken. So I can only resubmit… maybe google has a screw loose somewhere.

    Plugin Contributor James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Ok, so I think this is one of Google’s traditional warnings-that-aren’t-warnings.

    As the title states, “Indexed, but blocked by robots.txt”

    So, that’s the most that can be done on your site’s end, they’re explicitly blocked, and Google should be honoring that.

    Hopefully, Google will be removing them from the index shortly.

    Thread Starter Robert Dall

    (@rdall)

    Thanks James I really appreciate it. I was scratching my head at that one.

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