*protected email* Showing in SEO

  • Resolved WorkinWP

    (@iguanamom)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    not sure anything can be done about this. Regardless of what I have put in the SEO section on the page, sometimes Google doesn’t use it. I happened to google a term to see where this site was showing on the page and noticed it included after the email address, “*protected email*.” Is there any way this can just be hidden in an upcoming update of yours? It doesn’t look too great.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Ironikus

    (@ironikus)

    Hey @iguanamom – Thank you a lot for your message, as well as for using our plugin.
    Could you please share with me your configuration? By default, we use that string within *noscript* tags. Usually, they shouldn’t be returned by Google, that’s why I’d like to make sure we are able to reproduce the issue.
    Thank you already very much.

    I also use this extension on my two websites. Unfortunately, I experienced the same thing ([email protected] *protected email*) on google search.

    My conf:
    – generatepress
    – elementor
    – wprocket

    You need to search exactly your domain address on your website.
    Google will definitely shows for advanced search: example.com site: example.com
    Try with your simple domain name with top level domain: example.com
    You will get the same result.
    In this case, the email addresses will be in the results focus.

    Google is hectic. If you search without top level domain (example without .com) then the result will not include the protected email text with the email address.

    Thread Starter WorkinWP

    (@iguanamom)

    Hi,

    since this got brought up again, I’m actually not sure what I did or what transpired here, but I don’t see the issue anymore @nouqta . Apologies for not updating this thread.

    @ironikus Can you check this issue? I wrote the reproduce methods and my configs.

    Plugin Author Ironikus

    (@ironikus)

    @nouqta – Thanks for your message. As this is not really an issue, but more of a proof that it works (as Google’s crawler is a bot as well), you have two options:

    1. Simply remove the email address from the meta description that is used by Google

    2. Encode the email manually using entities. There’s a free tool available here: https://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

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