bloup

@launchinteractive please don’t add new features. It is good because it is simple. It is reliable. All the work should be done in the background.
Many features can be counterproductive.
For instance wp autoptimize created a fallback feature for Googlebot to find the last filename of the css or js file after being refreshed. This created many 302 redirects and messed up crawling of googlebot.
I also had many errors in search console with wp autoptimize. It said that my website wasn’t mobile friendly because googlebot didn’t find the files after a refresh.
Your plugin is great as it is.
with less features it is easier to maintain.

It happens to everyone, it is not related to all in one.
In fact, googlebot crawls a HTML page, and then later on, you may uninstall plugins. However, the HTML page referred to those plugins in the HTML code (Path to CSS file, path to JS files, or WOFF files). So, Googlebot will still think there are there as long as it didn’t recrawl the HTML page. That’s why you get so many 404 errors.
But at some point, you will less and less of them because googlebot will re-crawl the HTML pages.
Keep in mind, that googlebot separately crawls HTML pages and CSS files, images, JS files.

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For instance, if i ticked the noindex media / attachments.
Will google index mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/jojo.jpg ?

@nikitasp
Imagine you have 4 languages: (de,fr,en,es).
Some people would like to have a sitemap like:
https://domain.com/ru/sitemap.xml (with posts in russian)
https://domain.com/fr/sitemap.xml (with posts in french)
…

It is useless to do so. One sitemap with all the de,fr,en,es posts will suffice. Google checks the last modification date and this is the most important for anyone.

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• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by bloup.

I have All in one and Polylang installed. I hate Yoast and I wanted to keep All in one at all cost. So I disabled the XML sitemap feature of all in one and I have installed: the plugin “Google XML Sitemaps”
There is one main sitemap, with all the posts organized in sub sitemaps by date. In those sitemaps, you will find all your posts whatever the language organized by date.
No worries about hreflang, polylang takes care about it.

You don’t need to create a sitemap by language. It does not make any difference. Your URL makes the difference.

Dear talented MMR developer.

I have a new suggestion for you. Rather than recreating news CSS/JS file names like a6d10b61-1585730610.min.js

You could do versioning by adding a parameter at the end of your generated css and js files so that there would be no need to keep a backlog of files.

FOr example:
You would name your css, /mmr/consolidated-mmr.css?ver=1.0 and then, you would increment the version the next time the file is generated if someone press “purge cache”. For example, the new file could be /mmr/consolidated-mmr.css?ver=1.1

The same would apply to js files

Doing so, if googlebot look for /mmr/consolidated-mmr.css?ver=1.0 even if the actual file is /mmr/consolidated-mmr.css?ver=3.0, it will return the right css file.

?? ?? ??

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It would be great to store previous css/js files. For your information, the google cache, I have pages that haven’t been crawled since 2 months. And those old ones appear in the Google cache without CSS layout because the CSS file is gone since a while. In fact, I pressed a lot the purge cache and dug my own grave ??

you hide the URL of your website, it is impossible to see how to help you. I think it could be also related to your template and especially the robots tag or the blog category. It depends on you link to your page

I have the same issue Elementor is not compatible with cloudflare.
In order to bypass the problem, you have to add the IP address of your server and the domain name of the website you would like to reach in the hosts file of your computer.

Here is how it looks

https://inadoo.com/switch-https-google-seo/

You can look at the code and you will see there is one link rather than two

@hyperv

There is a dropdown button that tell you where you want to put the paypal express button in the paypal express settings tab in the woocommerce settings.

You see something like
at the top…
Below the cart
not displayed

I think that meanwhile you can hide the “process to checkout button” by adding at the end of your style.css from your theme the following code.

.woocommerce-checkout #payment {
    display: none;
}

This thing is bad because now, it creates two broken links

You can see it in your google webmaster tools. You will see two 404 pages

?s=%7Bsearch_term%7D

&

search/%7Bsearch_term%7D/

It means googlebot considers there are two broken links for homepage in my case

I have found a solution myself, without modifying functions.php
You just need to add
redirect 404 /robots.txt to .htaccess and then remove the /robots.txt using URL removal tool from google webmaster tools.

I am doing so because i think robots.txt is counter-productive. I noticed i lost traffic each time i added disallowed folders to robots.txt
I don’t have documents to hide.

On the other hand, matt cutt said we should not block folders where there is .js
Then, .swf are not indexed by wordpress.
So i think it is useless to block /wp-includes/ or /wp-content/

At last, i think it is useless to block /wp-admin/ and /wp-includes/ because spam bots don’t read robots.txt anyways.