CGItaly s.r.l.

Couldn’t Yoast simply compare URL and detect it is the same?

1) Yoy can see this: if ( empty( $_REQUEST['action'] ) ) wp_die( '0', 400 );
so it will never reach: @header( 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex' );

2) Having pages with 40x HTTP status decrease SEO so it is important to avoid it.
Here it is stated that noindex is fine for 404 page (not sure for 400): https://forum.webflow.com/t/best-practice-for-disallow-or-noindex-404-page/24135

But probably it is better to use a 200 HTTP status with X-Robots-Tag: noindex

3) You are right for wlwmanifest.xml, I hadn’t noticed it was static.

PS: I don’t want to remove internal links, also it would be useless since there are external domain (not controlled by us) that link them.
PS2: Yoast SEO should improve SEO in general, so I think it is related.

@devnihil
I have done it now, the problem remains.

@mikes41720
Yes, I confirm.

WPBakery Page Builder (the new name of Visual Composer) is enabled on the site for pages but not for posts.
Yoast SEO miss images of all things handled by WPBakery Page Builder.

In my case there are really no image indexed, see here: https://www.consultingroupitaly.com/page-sitemap.xml

The latest version of the plug-in seems to be working correctly as is.

The latest version of the plug-in seems to be working correctly.

The latest version fix the problem (at least for me), thanks.

Yes, you can:
– Download this file: https://www.consultingroupitaly.com/zip/class-sitemaps.zip
– Extract it
– And then replace the the file /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/sitemaps/class-sitemaps.php
on your web server with my edited one.

Note: This is only for Yoast SEO 9.0.2

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by CGItaly s.r.l..

It happens also to me, in my case it is related to “WPBakery Page Builder 5.4.7” plug-in that is probably incompatible with Yoast SEO.

You should delete the file https://truck37.ru/sitemap.xml (that you have put manually) since Yoast automatically generate it.

@jerparx: My site languade is Italian.

I have opened this link and it works: https://www.interpoolme.com/index.php/sitemap_index.xml

The only problem is the wrong Content-Type header that make it appears not working.

I have the same problem, the only workaround I have found is use it from Firefox.

Maybe is related to this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/invalid-sitemap_index-xml/