URL Issues

Resolved madrian
(@madrian)

4 years, 3 months ago
Hello,

I recently had the YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter installed on my WordPress.com website. After a couple of weeks, I noticed that the Google Search Console set up for my site had flagged roughly 40k+ excluded URLs. When looking into this issue, I found that this plugin had created a page for every single activatable filter, and considering there were around 10-15 different product filters available, this caused a giant amount of pages. I changed the setting to stop the filter from creating separate pages, but that didn’t work. I decided to remove the plugin, but WordPress still recognizes the filter pages as active, even though it just redirects the user to the regular page itself.

I have blocked the links in my robot.txt file, and excluded them from Google Search Console, but the URLs still exist on the site and on GSC, and I can’t seem to find a resolution to the issue. Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated. As a side note, I currently have a WordPress.com-hosted website, so it is not easy for me to access the internal files within my site.

The link added to this post is only one page out of many just like it. How it doesn’t bring up a 404 error is beyond me. Could it be a cache issue?

Best,
Matthew.
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Iván Sosa
(@ivansosa)

4 years, 3 months ago

Hi there,

hope you are doing well 🙂

The problem is not that the plugin creates different pages.
The plugin adds query strings to the URL and for Google Search Console this is “duplicated” content.

To solve the problem on the plugin, you need to set:

– Enable SEO option: yes
– Meta tag: noindex, nofollow
– Add “nofollow” to filter anchors: YES (not necessary but recommended)

I hope it helps you.

Have a great day!

Thread Starter madrian
(@madrian)

4 years, 3 months ago

Thanks for the advice, I will redownload the plugin and give it a try! Just in case I need to remove the plugin for any reason though, how would I solve this issue without the plugin, since the query strings were still there after I tried deleting it?

Best,
Matthew.

Thread Starter madrian
(@madrian)

4 years, 3 months ago

@ivansosa After changing the settings and waiting, the query strings aren’t phasing out, and are actually continuing to populate GSC. I’m not sure what to do at this point, as I figured they would slowly fissile out. Is there something else that I need to do besides changing these settings?

Thanks for the help!

Plugin Support Giuseppe Madaudo
(@askmagic)

4 years, 3 months ago

Hi there,
unfortunately what Ivan says is the only thing that you can do for this. I think that you should wait some days and check again.

Plugin Support Alessio Torrisi
(@alessio91)

4 years, 2 months ago

Hi there,
Sine we have not received a reply on your side, we will proceed to set this inquiry as resolved. However, for further assistance, do not hesitate to open a new thread.
Best regards!