I do not know if the plugin is now helping or hurting the website.
Edit : I removed a star. I made an update and the configuration for the /category/ was lost. This plugin is unreliable. I cannot trust it at 100% anymore.
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]]>When I looked at the google console I found out that in mid March Google indexed 4,000 pages of thin content. In the past (before V7.X) these pages were redirected to the post itself and NON of the sitemaps had links to them.
Who is the clown in the Yoast team that decided to cancel this redirection that worked for years? Who is the clown who decided to include them in Sitemaps?
Everyone knows that these are pages that generated by WordPress and they are useless for search engines.
Why did you make the change? It was working fine for everyone.
Now I am left to cleanup the mess that they created and I am facing a long wait until the penalty is lifted – this is a HUGE loss for my site.
There are countless of posts in forums about this issue and I believe that lots of sites are going to get the penalty soon.
Be very very careful
Also – anyone who is facing this issue – you now must use “noindex” on these pages to tell Google to remove them. If you just redirect them they will stay in the Google index for months.
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