[NSFW] links sent to google index which should not be

Hi,

Since version 14.0, Yoast SEO stores metadata for all pages in a separate database table. This allows us to fetch all of a page’s metadata in one simple database request (rather than lots of individual requests), resulting in much faster page loads. You can learn more about the feature here — https://yoast.com/help/why-does-yoast-seo-ask-to-index-a-sites-seo-data/

This isn’t related to the error you’re receiving from Google Search Console. Based on the link you’ve provided, it looks like it’s a link that will share that particular post or page to Facebook, which might be related to one of your social sharing plugins. We recommend you check on that further and make the changes accordingly in Google Search Console if you want to resolve those errors or notifications.

Hi @dknut,

Unfortunately, we’ve not yet strong evidence that the Speed up feature we last introduce would trigger GSC to sniff and report such links. Links with such parameters “?share=facebook&nb=1” are actually the low-quality links and I see it has required nofollow value already that signals search engines to no to not pass them on PageRank. Neither they do appear as so in search results. In this context, if your GSC is still reporting such links, we would suggest the following:

1. Clear all your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser. If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/.

2. Clear all your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser. If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/.

3. Delete your sitemap in Google. Doing so will not hurt the SEO of the site. This guide explains more (scroll to the bottom): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en.

4. Submit the sitemap again. Be sure to submit only sitemap_index.xml and nothing else. This guide explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/submit-sitemap-search-engines/.

5. Monitor the results to see if the issue is resolved. It can take some time before Google can report on the crawled URLs after you re-submit your sitemap, especially for large sites like yours.