Latest update Notification

@akiraanastasia We’re sorry to hear you’re experiencing this issue. If you haven’t changed your permalink structure it shouldn’t show that notification, nor should it require reindexing the SEO data.

When the issue occurred was it the only update that was done? Also, do you have any other plugins, or theme features that relate to SEO functions that might have triggered a false positive?

I get the same message as @akiraanastasia
Have not changed anything in my Permalink settings

So i have updated plugin to 15.1.1 but still that notification is showing there. As I said, I have not changed any permalink or anything. So why that notification? Should I click on Optimize? Hope it won’t break any URL structure?

@scottbrownconsulting Thanks for the update!

@akiraanastasia, If you clear all cache (from plugins, your server, and your browser), does the notification still appear?

Clicking the button to allow Yoast SEO to reindex wouldn’t change your permalink settings, so you can safely test whether this solves the problem. As a precaution, You can back up your site or test this on a staging site.

Hi, yes, after clearing cache, the notification is still there. If we hide it, it shows red dot (Notification Dot) in front of Yoast Plugin name in dashboard. I think this need to be fix.

Hi,

Before updating to v15.1 of Yoast SEO for WordPress, did you already previously run the text link counter, internal linking analysis, and indexables under the SEO > Tools menu?

If you check your SEO > Tools menu currently, is it asking you to redo the process as well or does it show as completed?

This was included in the changelog of v15.1 of Yoast SEO for WordPress:

• Flushes all permalinks from the indexables tables when the value of the permalink_structure option changes, and introduces a notification to ask for a reindex in that case.
• Flushes all permalinks from the indexables tables when the value of the home_url option changes, and introduces a notification to ask for a reindex in that case.
• Registers a cron job that checks whether the home_url was changed manually and resets the permalinks accordingly.

Could you check if any of this is applicable to your site or if you made any recent changes as described above?

Hi, I haven’t change anything since first detection of this bug. My plugins are set to auto update so when I checked answer on this thread, that time my plugin was already updated. So I haven’t click that button yet, only hide that notification. I was afraid if that button will break any permalink. So just tell if I should click that button or not? When it will go away? And most important, why it appeared there?

We recommend you click the relevant button to run the SEO data optimization if you haven’t done so. You can check the current status from the SEO → Tools page.

Can you please confirm whether the issue persists after running the SEO data optimization on your website? If yes, can you please deactivate and reactivate the Yoast SEO plugin temporarily to see if that drops the relevant notice from your site?

We look forward to hearing from you.

So I clicked that button and it took some time to “Optimize” links (It would be great to know what actually Yoast do there)… and then the Notification is gone.

At the same time, I am seeing some ranking drops on my site. Obviously, there might be other reasons for it, but I am afraid, it could be this Optimization issue?

Hi,

The notification resolving after running that button is expected. So that’s good.

In regards to ranking drops, we are happy to verify if Yoast is working correctly. We would like some more information.

1. If you go to your Google Search Console, do any errors for the sitemaps appear? If so, can you describe the errors or take a screenshot? You can use a tool like: https://pasteboard.co/ to share the image.

2. Can you provide a link that highlights your concerns with ranking?

Just checked, our one of site: [ redundant link removed ] is also completely removed from Bing Search Engine!

We are shocked! There are no errors in webmaster (google & bing). We submitted Yoast Sitemap in Bing in 2018! Please Help.

@akiraanastasia We checked on the site and have confirmed that it isn’t appearing for us in Bing. We reviewed your robots.txt at https://globaltechgadgets.com/robots.txt and there is nothing in it preventing the site from being indexed, nor did we find any robots meta tags in the source code set to noindex. In addition, the site does have a sitemap generated at ###/sitemap_index.xml so everything appears to be fine with the site being indexed.
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However, we did also check the site using cURL and that did return a 403 forbidden error for us:

cbailey$ curl -I https://globaltechgadgets.com
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:20:41 GMT
Server: Apache
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

So if the site is returning a forbidden error for some types of requests, that would be a potential cause of this. For example if a security plugin or a rule in the server firewall was preventing Bingbot from crawling the site it could result in it not being indexed.

?We ask that you please check your site Bing Webmaster tools and use the Fetch as Bingbot to see whether there are any indexing issue reported. You can find more information on this in Bing’s documentation here: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/fetch-as-bingbot-fe18fa0d

This guide also explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/your-site-isnt-indexable/.

Hi, just checked in webmaster. Bing bot is allowed.

@akiraanastasia If Bingbot is allowed to crawl the page, can you please try checking the Crawl Report and let us know what is reported? You can find directions on viewing this here: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/crawl-information-report-4ccef0b5

Can you please help. Looks like that Bing Documentation is old? I am unable to find Reports & data in webmaster.

While checking url crawling, i got this message:

The inspected URL has been indexed successfully but there are some issues which might prevent us from serving it to our users.