What does {search_term_string} mean in my backend search results?
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When I view the results of my popular searches, there is an entry for
{search_term_string}. What does it mean? It seems to be ranking the highest in my popular searches. Thanks!
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It’s a custom child theme of Neve, and the child theme doesn’t have any additional customizations like
better-search-template.phpto customize the search results display.Here’s a screenshot of the “Popular Searches” post box as seen from the admin dashboard. The
{search_term_string}appears as the largest search term in this block (other terms redacted for client’s privacy).
When I view the admin page at
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bsearch_popular_searches, it appears in the #1 spot with the highest “Total searches” number but zero “Daily searches”.I just googled this out and it is apparently related to the Google Bot trying to get through the search box. I don’t think there is a way to block this unless you do it directly via htaccess or nginx conf rules as per link below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/mosanu/how_do_block_google_crawler_from_crawling_the/
That is interesting! I’ve already had that set in my robots.txt file like this:
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: *
Disallow: /?s =*But I recognize robots.txt is more of a suggestion rather than a way to actually block. I’ll see about the redirect. Thanks!
Once I put the fix in there, about how long will the results take to recalculate? I imagine daily is daily. I guess the other depends on traffic/number of searches?
Edit: omg, I just realized after posting this that there is a SPACE after the
sand before the=in my robots.txt file. Maybe that was it!!
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