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Resolved stuartmcmillen
(@stuartmcmillen)

2 years, 1 month ago
I have recently submitted my XML sitemap to Google Search Console.

One of the things that I was surprised to learn is that WordPress seems to be generating “/feed/” pages for every single blog post on my website.

For example, these three blog posts:

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/tannis-macbeth-memorial-fund/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/energy-slaves-reflections/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/ballgate-mientkiewicz/

…have these three pages auto-created for them:

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/tannis-macbeth-memorial-fund/feed/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/energy-slaves-reflections/feed/
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/ballgate-mientkiewicz/feed/

Questions:

1)
I am wondering whether this is something that I should be concerned about? I’m wondering if this is an example of unnecessary pages of my website that I should stop from being generated? Can I use either Yoast SEO plugin, or WordPress itself to stop these pages from being generated?

The reason I ask is it seems that Google is refusing to crawl some of my legitimate recent blog posts with my Canberra Birds artwork. Perhaps because it is being overwhelmed by all of the other “/feed/” pages that the sitemap lists for it to crawl.

2)
How Google is even finding these pages? Those /feed/ pages don’t seem to be even listed on my website’s sitemap. I simply don’t know how how these are appearing in my Google Search Console list of my website’s “pages”, when the sitemap does not direct the bot to these pages.

3)
Bonus question:
Looking at my Yoast SEO-generated sitemap, can you suggest things that I should cut from this list? My website is essentially a personal website featuring blog posts, comics, and video posts. e.g. is it worthwhile having the ‘category’ and ‘post tag’ sitemaps, or are those that just redundant? Should I just be limiting it to just the Post, Page, Comic, and Video sitemaps, without those tag/topic/categories slicing up the data in that way?
- This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by stuartmcmillen. Reason: Broken link in original post

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Jeroen Rotty
(@jeroenrotty)

2 years, 1 month ago

Hey @stuartmcmillen,

Thank you for using Yoast SEO and for reaching out!

You have identified multiple concerns so we will address each one separately below.

1) Generally not really something to worry about in essence. WordPress core does include feed URLs for posts, comments, and other feeds by default. However, you can optimize the crawling of your site by search engines by removing them.

2) Google and other search engines crawl the web by visiting links and other links mentioned on pages. Those /feed/ URLs are in the page source of your site – so they are found. They are indeed not indexable and they won’t be indexed, but they can be crawled.

You can find more options in Yoast SEO Premium to optimize your crawl settings, see https://yoast.com/help/crawl-settings-in-yoast-seo/

3) This is a bit of SEO advice territory. But one thing that caught my attention is that you have more post tags than you have actual posts. This is out of balance and please know that by creating a tag/category, you are creating extra pages on your site so you divide your crawl budget on them. You can read more about this on our SEO blog.

In order to optimize, you can indeed lower the amount or set the archive pages not to be indexed, that is up to you to decide. Also see: https://yoast.com/taxonomy-seo-categories-tags/

Plugin Support Maybellyne
(@maybellyne)

2 years ago

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