Google Search Console Page Indexing Issues

What URLs are redirecting? And are these URLs for categories that have been excluded?

Redirects are common. For example, if you link to a URL without a trailing slash, but your site is setup to force a trailing slash, that’ll be counted as a redirect by Google. If you change the URL of a post, some plugins like those that handle SEO will note the old URL and automatically redirect to the new URL. Again, Google will count that as a redirect.

Thank you for your help! The URLs are for categories that are being excluded. The issue first began 8/16/22 according to Google Console. I use 3 plugins that are not built by Automatic. Only two were installed on 8/16/22. Contact Form 7 and Ultimate Category Excluder. I do have some additional CSS that hides the Re-Captcha Badge and removes some meta info:

/* hide re-captcha badge / .grecaptcha-badge { visibility: hidden; } / Remove Post Date Author / .entry-meta{ display: none; } / hide navigation links for single posts | 5871846-zen (LL) */
body.single-post .nav-links {
display: none;
}

From Google Console — here are 10 examples:

https://comedyhouse.us/jessie-mcdonald?ak_action=accept_mobile

https://www.comedyhouse.us/marcus-combs/

https://www.comedyhouse.us/carlos-mencia/

https://comedyhouse.us/dirty-south-jul-9-10/

https://www.comedyhouse.us/saseddrick-washington/

https://comedyhouse.us/arnesto-ross?ak_action=accept_mobile

https://comedyhouse.us/john-witherspoon?ak_action=reject_mobile

https://comedyhouse.us/chris-tucker/?ak_action=reject_mobile

https://comedyhouse.us/cory-zooman-miller?ak_action=accept_mobile

https://www.comedyhouse.us/hamburger-shucky-ducky/

These pages are only accessible via the SEARCH tool and TAGS when these comedians are not performing in my area. At that time the post is given the category that is not excluded.

Thank you again for help.

Peter Hamlett

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Kathryn Presner.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Kathryn Presner. Reason: added code formatting

The first link redirects because it’s missing the trailing slash.

The second link redirects because the URL has changed. The new URL appears to be https://comedyhouse.us/marcus-combs-rip/

The third link redirects because the “real” URL doesn’t include www i.e. it is https://comedyhouse.us/carlos-mencia/.

I stopped checking after that because it doesn’t seem like your redirects are at all related to my plugin.

Marios, thank you for your help!