Coverage Issue Detected by Google

  • Resolved berkshire001

    (@berkshire001)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi

    I’ve received an email from Google advising the following:

    Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 Coverage issues:

Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt

    The URL that this is affecting is:

    /wp-admin/js/password-strength-meter.min.js?ver=4.7.5

    Anyone know the correct way to handle this error?

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by berkshire001.
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  • Thread Starter berkshire001

    (@berkshire001)

    As the file that Google is scraping is a security file, wouldn’t this be off limits to bots by default?

    That’s an odd message. This is just a JavaScript file that produces a “strength meter” to rate how strong/weak a password is. It’s not content that Google would really need to scrape. There’s nothing secret in the file though. It’s publically available on GitHub for anyone to take a look at too.

    You could remove the block in robots.txt so Google can see it. That shouldn’t compromise the security of the site at all.

    Mirko P.

    (@rainfallnixfig)

    Hi there,

    It’s been a while since we last heard back from you. I’m going to mark this thread as resolved.

    Hopefully, the above information helped you out! If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.

    Cheers.

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