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Thank you very much ??

Hi Steve – Happy you have a positive experience ??

The tracking routines are tricky to get just right, pick up the right things and ignore irrelevant traffic. Getting this to work on sites with different configurations, PHP versions, plugins and themes can be tricky.

The maintenance routines can take a few seconds but will do a retroactive cleanup.

If your website records traffic from search engines not yet detected by SEO Booster, the same maintenance routine will recognize old traffic and converts to keyword data.

Every time new search engines are added to the list, old search engine traffic will add more keyword data and clean up irrelevant traffic. Neat? ??

hello ahbrikaa

Which cache plugin are you using?
In which way is the plugin “not working”? Are the pages not cached?

The purpose of the 404 module is to list missing content. Either from missing URLs or files from internal pages on your website, or visitors coming from external links.

Let’s say for instance you had an URL “/oldpage/” which you then delete.

You do no longer link to it anywhere on your site, but a friend of yours is linking to it from his website. Someone clicks the link (or a crawler) and goes to your site to /oldpage/ This error will show up on the list, letting you know you need to redirect or get the link changed.

There is no practical way to identify what 404 errors show up from vulnerability scans vs. previously mentioned /oldpage/ except maintaining a huge list of known URLs and then cross-reference this.

This could be a feature added in the future, but far outside the scope of the 404 module and the main purpose of this plugin.

Missing uploads -should- show up as 404 because when the file exists, it returns status code 200 (OK) – but when an image is missing an error page (404) is shown instead, meaning you have deleted the image or otherwise made a mistake. Again, the purpose of the module itself.

If you check the logs in iThemes Security you will see missing images show up as 404 Detection notices also.

Hi Steveraven

I was busy last couple of days.

There is a problem with the Wordfence URLs that I can confirm; I will find a way to fix those.

However, everything else is not correct.

First, the 404 errors related to SQL that show up are not a security issue.

That is, in fact, a sign that someone is scanning your site, trying to see if you have left SQL dumps, or use old plugins that have known security problems. If these scripts find your website, they then have a way in. So, not an error – there are scripts trying to visit those URLs.

The scripts you are referring to are from an old version of your website. Everything is archived – try visiting your site via https://web.archive.org/ and check out an old version, you can see all kinds of 404 errors from missing .css, .js, etc..

So these URLs used to exist, now they no longer live – means they create a 404. Why these old pages are still visited, don’t know.

Also, those urls/images that you do not understand where are coming from, here are two examples of missing images on your website:

/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/idiot.jpg is missing from this page:
/incall-rates-idiots/

/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/10YearsLogo-Optimized-e1466371053735.jpg is missing from these 4 pages:

/desperado-number-blocking/
/interview-etiquette/
/incall-rates-idiots/
/ratings-and-reviews/

If you go visit those pages you can see the missing image for yourself – scroll down, they are in the “snippet-box”.

So, to your assumption this plugin is a security hazard: No, you are wrong ?? Have a nice day.

Just a quick headsup – I released a new minor update just now, primarily CSS changes, this is how your log should look – Notice the use of yellow icons.

https://www.screencast.com/t/adimnwiz

WordFence is a very stable plugin in my experience, so if those are rogue 404s there must be a conflict with my plugin.

I do see a few missing pictures on your website when I do a crawl (Screaming Frog SEO Spider), so let me make sure those are not the ones you are talking about.

Could you please use the cleverplugins.com/support/ ticket system, then I can send the list of 404 errors.

Hello Steve

Ah, so you are referring to 404 errors (you have a lot) – I have made them slightly orange as RED was worrying some users that the log entry was critical.

Here is a screenshot where you see both https://www.screencast.com/t/9Xne3QZEWDf

I will make the color stand out in some other way or attach a label to it instead so still readable. That will come in next version.

Hello Steven

Thank you very much for your comments and review, really appreciate it ??

Hi geraikongkow

I will add this as a feature in a future release, so you can remove all references to keywords “not available” aka. “Not provided”.

I will close this support ticket for now as it is a feature not currently available and if you wish to see just keywords you can use the filter mentioned earlier.

Thank you for trying out the plugin and please let me know if you have other ideas for features.

Hi Steven

Ah, I was confused when you referenced the color pink, gotcha ??

I have just released 3.3.8 where I have increased the font size and padding in the log and made the default text black.

Also, I introduced alternate colors for each row (same colors as WordPress default) to make it easier to separate the log entries.

I hope it improves the log for you, please let me know if you have other suggestions, this topic I will close for now.

Hello Steve

Thank you for your question, but it sounds like some other plugin is conflicting with the colors, because the default color is not pink.

The default color scheme can be seen here: https://www.screencast.com/t/jA9Irf7J

I can try to enforce the CSS rules preventing another plugin from overruling the colors – I will include that in the next release. Thank you for letting me know ??

Hello geraikongkow

I have not added a way to remove these keywords because they still give information that the url is getting traffic from search engines.

This can help identify pages that used to get traffic, but no longer gets visitors from search engines aka “Lost traffic”, something I have written about here: https://cleverplugins.com/problem-pages-lost-traffic/

It also helps to show what pages are most visited by the search engines by counting visits per search engine.

Hi geraikongkow

How are you? When you are looking for the Keywords page you can filter out unknown keywords in the “Filtering options” just above the keywords table and choose “Show only known keywords”.

There are more details in the knowledgebase here:
https://cleverplugins.helpscoutdocs.com/article/17-keywords

Hello tappenden_de

Thank you for your bug report, sorry I was away and not able to respond earlier.

I have just checked the plugin and verified I can download and install correctly. I am curious which PHP version you might be running or if there was a problem with the recent WordPress 4.9 release?

I have just pushed out a new version that includes a couple of fixes, could I perhaps ask you to try again if it works?