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Hi lgokul (@lgokul). Thank you for your question.

The mobile version pages have to be private. When you are logged-in you can reach them on their URLs, but not logged-in users and especially crawlers should not see them.
If crawlers see your mobile version pages with their URLs you will have SEO problems because robots may not understand it’s the mobile version.
Even adding a canonical URL, sometimes Google Bot may consider your mobile version as a duplicated. To avoid this kind of issues the mobile versions are saved as private.
Their URLs don’t exist for not logged-in users and crawlers.

In any case, in WordPress every slug is unique.

You would have problems if Yoast SEO adds the mobile version pages in the sitemap, but this should not be the case. If so, please let me know it, in this case, I will investigate it.

Excellent, I am too clear.
So these url do not affect the seo.
Thank you very much the plugin is perfect.
100% tested and without problems.

Friend after using your plugin, google remove my homepage or pages modified by plugin in my google results

Apparently it affects SEO.
Could you check please?
I already disabled the plugin step 1 day and it appeared again in the search engine.

I also found an incompatibility with the WP ROCKET plugin, it has an option to optimize database tables, by doing this it corrupts the mobile templates created by your plugin.

Thanks in advance.

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I confirm with google that if it affects the “no-index” on the private page created by your plugin.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by lgokul.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by lgokul.

Income temporary solution

1.- It is necessary to have the yoast seo plugin
2.- Open the mobil page to edit and find yoast seo options.
3.- Put the options as is this image to remove the no index tag created by WordPress by the private page, and create a canonical address to avoid duplicating the page.

Image: https://i.imgur.com/DlsS4fB.png

What is enclosed in red are the modified options.

Hi lgokul (@lgokul)

when a page is private, nobody sees it. Only if you log-in you see that page.
Google will not be able to see a private page, because it can’t log-in.
A private page doesn’t exist for Google. If you submit a private page URL to Google, it should give you a 404 error.
The first version of the plugin created normal pages with no index and canonical URL pointing to the desktop version. Then I decided to make private the mobile versions to avoid any kind of issue. With the first version, you could still have the risk some SEO plugins may add that pages to the sitemap.

Are you sure it’s the plugin? I also think 1 day is not enough to change your position in the Google Search Results page.

In any case, it’s my interest this plugin gives no issues, especially in terms of SEO that is something important. So let’s continue the discussion until we are both sure all is ok with this plugin in terms of SEO. First I kindly ask you to check in details your situation to be sure other causes are not having an impact on the SEO of your pages.
If it was this plugin, after deactivation it’s hard to believe the position in the Google search results changes in one day.

Maybe Google could penalize your page if the mobile content is totally different than the desktop content. I mean, if on the desktop content you are speaking about Mr Bean and on the mobile version you speak about Micheal Jackson, I can imagine Google gives you a penalty. But until you remove a slider of images, change the position of an element or other little changes, you should not have any penalties.

About the conflict with WP ROCKET plugin, what do you mean that the mobile template is broken? The mobile versions are nothing else than private pages. Do you see something strange also in the back-end? Would it be possible to share a screenshot?

lgokul (@lgokul) I was forgetting… I wrote that in the first version the plugin was managing the mobile version as normal pages with no-index and canonical url pointing to the desktop version. Could it be that you created the pages that have given issues with the old version?

Hi Sir. Jose, I understand that private pages are only visible by logging in or throwing a 404.
The detail is that I created the mobil version for my index just by changing some widget elements and positions.

I saw that when loading my index on PC I threw the page without the nofollow and in the mobile version for its plugin the source code throws me a nofollow so this page is visible to all public strangely maybe because it is the index or main page WordPress

The problem is that Google strangely tells me that the robots are nofollow for this second mobile page that also works as an index in the mobile version (I solved it with what I published previously but it is not a solution for all users to use the yoast seo plugin )

I can gladly give you teamviewer id and password to discuss this together and clarify more details.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by lgokul.

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Many apologies Sir.Jose the Yoast Seo plugin apparently causes the major SEO conflict.

Since apparently this plugin when detecting the private page automatically adds the no-follow tag.
The google bot index tracker detects this tag in some way I just checked it.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by lgokul.

Hi lgokul (@lgokul)
no problems, thank you very much for the information. Yoast SEO is a very popular plugin, it’s important to solve this conflict.
For one week I will be on holiday. When I come back this will be a priority. I will check and solve this problem.
Until then if you have to use the plugin, I think you know how to do to avoid this issue.
In a little more than one week you will have a clean solution, I hope.