Deleted messages in Indexnow

  • Resolved aikotimmer

    (@aikotimmer)


    2 weeks ago

    Today I observed a strange behaviour. After I deleted some messages in Flamingo the link to these messages like: “https://mysite.com/?post_type=flamingo_inbound&p=1156” show up in de Indexnow plugin log as being submitted to the search engines that use Indexnow (like Bing and Yandex). Obviously a visit from the search engines results in a 404. This is unwanted behaviour because it feeds a whole lot of 404 pages to the search engines.

    This is what I get in the visitors log:
    2026-05-24 22:46 YandexBot 95.108.213.145 /?post_type=flamingo_inbound&p=1156 404

    Is this a Flamingo problem that could be solved?

    • This topic was modified 2 weeks ago by aikotimmer.
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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    2 weeks ago

    Where can we see the website in question?

    Thread Starter aikotimmer

    (@aikotimmer)

    2 weeks ago

    This is my website: https://dialysehumor.nl

    I noticed all query strings of all deleted messages are submitted to the Indexnow plugin resulting in 404’s when search engines visit. This might give me a bad reputation with search engines and that’s not what I want.

    I also noticed that when I use that query string with a valid post ID it gives me a 301 to the page where it was posted.

    • This reply was modified 2 weeks ago by aikotimmer.
    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    2 weeks ago

    What’s the “Indexnow”?

    Thread Starter aikotimmer

    (@aikotimmer)

    2 weeks ago

    Indexnow is a wordpress plugin that automatically submits new or changed pages or posts to a range of search engines. More info here:

    IndexNow Plugin – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org https://share.google/ukOzqYUBRX2igy88X

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    2 weeks ago

    Okay, I got it. Ask it in the IndexNow support forum instead of here.

    Thread Starter aikotimmer

    (@aikotimmer)

    1 week, 6 days ago

    Thank you. I will post a message in the Indexnow forum. Hopefully they don’t say I should post it here 🙂

    For now I de-activated Flamingo hoping for a solution

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