W3TC creating auto pages with /feed in sitemap

  • Resolved daq43

    (@daq43)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    I have been facing the issue from when I have started using W3 Total Cache, that in google search console all of my webpages duplicated with “/feed/” extension and submitted to search console but all the pages are “Crawled – currently not indexed”
    please guide me what to do next

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @daq43,

    Thank you for your inquiry.

    This is not a bad thing. Feed URL’s are not created for humans, but RSS feed crawlers and readers. They are only basic code versions of your actual content pages. You do not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most not likely not show them to users anyways.

    This is best practice and not an issue.

    Thread Starter daq43

    (@daq43)

    Hi, Marko Vasiljevic
    thank you for such great assistance.
    Now, I just want to know is it okay for Feed URL’s to be excluded in the google search console? will those pages not hurt my google ranking?

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @daq43,

    I don’t think this will affect your google ranking. But it’s better to check with google support about this.
    I hope this helps

    Thread Starter daq43

    (@daq43)

    Hello Marko Vasiljevi
    I have researched on google and people are crying that their traffic has massively hurt with those feed URLs

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