Google / SEO

Hello @schmecktes,

1. Robots meta tag: index, follow

Please read: https://www.metatags.org/meta_name_robots

2. Bypass für Such-Bots: no

If you set this option to yes, the search engine bots will see the website (not the maintenance page).

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I recommend using the maintenance mode page just for maintenance. Some users tend to use it as a coming soon page for months and I don’t know how Google acts if you “tell” him the website is in maintenance for such a long period of time.

Thanks.

Hi George,

thanks for your fast reply. I think I understand the facts. To let the robots scrawl only the maintance page with infos on it and not the rest of the website:

1. index, follow & 2. Bypass für Such-Bots: no

3. Using the maintance site as a coming soon page is not the best practice, but it works probably for one month.

Correct? Thanks

@schmecktes: Yes, I think it’s fine. You’re welcome.

Thanks with 5 *****

One more question please. I′ve done it like you wrote but the google index doesn′t work. I have wait for 2-3 weeks now.

With this preferences it would work? The maintance page would be included in the search enginge? Are there maybe other preferences, that causes index issues? WordPress …

Thanks

Hello @schmecktes,

I can’t tell you the exact reason why your website is not indexed yet. But I suggest to edit wp-maintenance-mode.php (wp-content/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/includes/classes) and change these lines (524 – 525):

header("$protocol $status_code Service Unavailable", TRUE, $status_code);
header("Retry-After: $backtime");

with these lines:

//header("$protocol $status_code Service Unavailable", TRUE, $status_code);
//header("Retry-After: $backtime");

After this change, the plugin will not send the 503 status code. For now, this is the only thing I think it can cause the problem.

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by George J.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by George J.

YEAH!!! That′s it!

To comment out this code lines was definive necessary! Before in google search console there was a 503 error.

After changing the code in the wp-maintenance-mode.php and new manual indexing with google it succeed a few minutes later.

Thank you very much!

PS. Maybe you include this knowledge in your plugin for other customers, that do the same with maintance mode as a temporary construction site…

@schmecktes Thanks. I will add a setting for changing the status code. ??

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by George J.

Cool!!!