GSC – Only Home Page Indexed – Breadcrumbs

  • Resolved edwardjonesdesign

    (@edwardjonesdesign)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Can anyone help suggest why all of our pages are excluded from being indexed and suggest idea to fix the breadcrumb error, perhaps that is causing this issue?

    I have searched but there seems to be many possibilities so eliminating any would be a great help!

    -I have cleared site cache from WP.
    -Tried submitting both generated sitemap and yoast sitemap, but all pages are excluded from indexing unless a page is indexed manually.
    –I have this error in yoast sitemap “https://lemongrassdecor.com/post-sitemap.xml”: “Missing XML Line 3, Parent tag: urlset; tag: url” – *Note – I do not use posts on site so maybe why(?).
    -Breadcrumb error for home page: Either “name” or “item.name” should be specified
    Line 36: …[{“@type”:”ListItem”,”position”:1,”name”:””}]…
    -I have turned off breadcrumbs in yoast but still get this error and html generated. Is this due to home page title being blank, possible Storefront Theme breadcrumbs, or yoast? It looks like “yoast-schema-graph” tag.

    Any help stepping resolving this would greatly be appreciated – thanks!

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  • Plugin Support Suwash

    (@suascat_wp)

    @edwardjonesdesign

    We’re sorry you’re having trouble with sitemaps and breadcrumb on your website. I imagine this can be frustrating for you. We’d like to look a closer look.

    1. Missing XML Line 3, Parent tag: urlset; tag: URL

    We checked your post sitemap https://lemongrassdecor.com/post-sitemap.xml and do see that it is empty. It looks like you’ve no posts being published yet on your website as such empty post sitemap can be expected. If for some reason, you don’t use Posts functionality on your website, you can disable it from SEO >Search Appearance > Content Types(tab) and toggle it OFF. This will help remove the post sitemap from the list.

    Either “name” or “item.name” should be specified

    You’ve mentioned that you don’t have a home page title. It’s a possible cause of that schema error. You can go to the Yoast SEO Metabox and input the breadcrumb title to address this issue.

    Thread Starter edwardjonesdesign

    (@edwardjonesdesign)

    @suascat_wp

    Thank you for the clear explanation and helpful info!

    1. Missing XML Line 3, Parent tag: urlset; tag: URL
    I turned of the SEO for posts and that removed the post-sitemap.xml.

    2. Either “name” or “item.name” should be specified
    I turned breadcrumbs back on, added the breadcrumb in advanced section of Homepage Yoast settings and this seems to fix the google breadcrumb validation error.

    I will work with google to see if they can help fix why all other pages are being excluded from my sitemaps except for the homepage? Thanks again!

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