Wordfence alternative pages

  • Resolved ilariamast

    (@ilariamast)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi guys,
    I was looking at my Google search console of a blog I created and noticed that more than 37.000 pages (alternative pages with proper canonical tag) were generated. The last scanning of Google Search Console was last 9th of September. If I open the robot.txt I get this:
    “User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php”

    I already found a post here talking about this problem and it was because of the “live traffic options” enabled but the point is that I unistalled Wordfence a long time ago and!
    Someone can tell me how do I get rid of this mistakes all at once? Thank you.

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  • Hi @ilariamast,

    This seems to be no longer related with Wordfence, but can you post a screenshot or the exact messages you see within your Google Search console?

    You may have another plugin that is causing these extra pages to be generated. So could you also provide to me the list of plugins you have active on your site?

    Dave

    Thread Starter ilariamast

    (@ilariamast)

    Hi Dave,
    the list of plugin is: better ads manager, better disqus comments, better social counter widget, newsletter pack pro, custom sidebars, bakery builder, classic editor, cerber security, contact form 7, cookie notice, reveal Ids, smush, webpexpress, wp fastest cache, yoast seo.

    You can find the screen in the link below. Thank you!
    https://www.smilepusher.it/

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by ilariamast.

    Hi @ilariamast,

    The URL in question: wordfence_lh=&hid= is used by Wordfence’s JavaScript detection to classify users as bots or humans.

    Unfortunately Google’s search console may index this page, and continue to index this page even after Wordfence is removed.

    You can prevent this by editing your robots.txt file and adding these two lines:

    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Disallow: /*?*wordfence_lh

    From there, you only need to re-crawl robots.txt with the Search Console, and Google should no longer index those queries.

    Dave

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