[NSFW] Yaost causing redirects for search/author/non-existent pages

Hello @rob33,

Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin. I see that your author URL redirects to the homepage. You also do not have an author sitemap listed in the sitemap index. Kindly navigate to WordPress > Yoast SEO > Settings > Advanced > Author Arhcives and ensure that it’s enabled. That should fix the redirect.

Hi @maybellyne

Thanks, that’s worked. How about extra pages which don’t exist which are being created like site/cams/pages2/, site/cams/pages3/, site/cams/pages11/ and these redirect to their first page site/cams.

Are these related to your plugin?

Or pages which don’t exist but don’t redirect either like:

site/author/robin-c-mac/page/12/

Some crazy gremlins at work.

Do you have a private way to share links, bit exposed here.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by rob33.

Hi @rob33

When I checked the URLs: site/cams/pages2/, site/cams/pages3/ from the site httpstatus.io , I noticed there is no redirect and HTTP status 200 is showing. Please check the screenshot.

That ss appears to be for author page which doesn’t redirect correct. But the cams ones do. I don’t really want to litter this thread with these links but I have many being churned out for pages which dont exist and do redirect and author pages which don’t exist and dont redirect. With all plugins disabled I should add, the author pages dont redirect still with all plugins disabled but the site.com/cams/12/ still do.

I see status 200 means page is working having just googled it – but it’s not a page that exists on my site, can you elaborate pls on what I might need to do to rectify, if yoast related. Thanks,

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by rob33.
• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by rob33.
• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by rob33.

This URL returns a 404 error. Can you share a screenshot of the notice about that URL and others related to it that you get from the Google Search Console?

Hi,

Tbh I’m not seeing that page in page console now – this is its report

What I see now are 3 types of redirect, one from pages that used to be woocommerce product pages from yr or so ago that were changed to posts and WC plugin deleted. Second appear to be slugs which assumed the full H1 title on publication overwriting their KW set slug, so amended urls. And the third type are these strange ones, they are.

/best-ftm-packers//1000
/best-ftm-packers/1000
/page/1/
/page/6/
/page/5/

Maybe a plugin pagination issue? They’re occurring less now.