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Hi @arnaudbroes .

Sorry for delayed reply. Somehow that link wasn’t working for me earlier. However I re-tried it and now it works. Possibly user error.

I followed the url and updated a post, you are correct. The ping actions do exist on that page. It seems the action was executed too.

However, Google hasn’t updated the sitemap page at all. I guarantee you. If I had posted an article, Google wouldn’t recognize it at all. Will give “not discovered” or something like that on the url check page. It will stay like that for days.

However, after doing the above and waiting for the Google Search Console Sitemap page to change, then I pinged Google directly using this link:

https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://site.com/sitemap.xml

It immediately updates the sitemap page. Suggesting that AIOSEO is not able to ping Google correctly here.

Hi @arnaudbroes . Thanks for the reply.

I must say, I’m not as technically expert to know cron jobs in details. Having said, I installed two different plugins. This and this. To check if there are any cronjob events on my site for AIOSEO and after repeated searches, I cannot find any instances of it.

Now, if you are using some other methods that the likes of Jetpack and Google Sitekit aren’t, making the AIOSEO’s cronjobs not visible in the above plugins, then I am not aware.

What I can say however is that we have not disabled cron on my site. I checked the wp-config file and I found no instances of any mention of it being disabled. I’m also pretty sure that it’s not disabled at the server level either.

I also checked the ping.php file. Except the $test = line, it matches with your screenshot.

Yes I am aware about how Google Search Console behaves. Whenever I check the url of a new article, I don’t know the exact words, but it says something like url is unknown to Google.

It’s only after I ping Google manually that Google says url is discovered by the sitemap.xml. Crawling / indexing comes later. I’m mostly concerned about the url not getting discovered part.

About sitemap, I have followed all the guidelines by AIOSEO and have added it properly to Google Search Console. Though the search console behaves differently (in indexing) when I add the sitemap.rss in addition to the xml one, but that’s for another time and possibly Google’s fault.

As for featured image, I see. Can I suggest you something. How about adding an option of detecting featured image. Whether a user wants featured image to be counted as part of the article or not and effect the SEO scores. Please think about it.

Hi @lastsplash . Thanks for taking time to reply.

Problem is, as I said, I am not a member on GitHub and hence I am not experienced as how GitHub works as a member. Honestly I might or might not register on it soon. I would prefer if someone more experienced than me in dealing with GitHub raise request issues.

Also, I checked, apparently, UptimeRobot is not counted in visitors. However, Better Uptime and StatusCake most likely is.

About the main downtime monitoring issues. As suggested, I am on the email with the Jetpack guys. However, nothing much has come out of it yet.

I am copy pasting one of my lines from there:

The 8 and half hour thing happened, the problem was on the server side. I am told that the problem was database related. I did check the site in the middle and it was showing an error connecting to the database. I dobut Cloudflare could play a role. As otherwise I wouldn’t be able to see that error myself when I opened the site myself.

Thing is, I got 500 error (or was it 521, I don’t remember), so I doubt Cloudflare or Cloudflare online should cause a problem in reporting to the Jetpack there.

Hi @muffinpeace .

I appreciate you taking time and replying. I personally find Jetpack to be among the best WordPress plugins out there. Especially because it has so many features in it’s free version.

1. A) I already have disabled counting stats for registered users. That’s not my issue. I issue is that if I open the site without logging in, then login, it still counts my non-logged in visit in same session inside the stats. It should be able to understand that a person logged in hence no need to count his / her non-logged in current ongoing session in stats.

This is a very small issue. But I thought there’s a room for improvement.

Thing is, WordPress logs me out every few to several days. No matter how much I try to make sure it remembers me, it logs me out after several days. Requiring me to login. Hence it counting myself in stats when not logged in, is something I noticed.

B) All site page speed checking sites are counted as visitors from what I know. Google Pagespeed Index and GMatrix to name a couple.

Similarly, all known uptime monitoring services are counted as visitors. “Better Uptime”, StatusCake too possibly. I have not checked but UptimeRobot can be added to it.

When I signed up for these services, I was getting like a hundred visitors per day counted in Jetpack stats, all from these services. It should not count them as real visitors.

C) Thanks for the Github link. Good to see there was some consideration about that. I hope to see such being implemented sooner. Either through an API or through some other way.

D) Thanks. I will check and reply later on it.

2. Thanks. I will check and reply. Though I have never made a GitHub account before and have no experience in using it as a member.

3. Thanks. I will give detailed information on it. But there’s one thing for sure. Jetpack downtime monitoring is not working on my side.

4. Thanks. The Jetpack Firewall page I checked already. Besides rules based protection, it does not mention anything else. DDoS was just an example I used.

How about ability to import a list of pre-defined IP addresses. Can that feature be added to it.

Hi @jamesosborne.

Thanks for all the information. Really helpful all this.

I see. Thanks for all the information. Very helpful.

Please do send the feedback above in anyway possible.

About Analytics. I am of view that Analytics should allow disabling individual parts of tracking – if not done already. This would reduce tracking and resource usage.

About AMP, I was told it affects ad revenue – maybe not.

Just one more question. If I apply for Adsense. How long might it take for approval. What are the requirements for its approval. Like do I need to have certain number of visitors for approval. Do I need things like site owner / author information and a good privacy policy for approval. Again sorry if these questions are not part of your assignment there.

Hi @jamesosborne.

Thanks for the answer. That’s what I wanted to know. So thanks for clarifying.

I know it’s not part of your work. But can I request two things. These two you can look into or forward it to the respective Google representatives specialised in it.

First is, can the Google Analytics load the script from its own links rather than Tag Manager. If not then somehow redirect the script to appear as coming from Analytics. This would prevent any confusion.

Second is, why are the Tag Manager scripts so heavy. I know Lighthouse Treemap shows only some parts of the scripts are loaded. But even then, it feels too heavy. As per Google’s own Speed rankings it is too heavy. What can one even do to fix that. Is there no way to reduce the size of the scripts. Like, if we have no use for Goals in Analytics then allow us to disable that part in the script from being loaded.

I know all this is not part of this plugin. But if you can send the feedback forward it would be of great help to everyone.

Hi again @codersantosh .

We finally found the problem. I really thank the server admin for helping me out with this. The problem seems to be on the plugin side and you need to look into it.

– We tried disabling all plugins but it did not work.

– We tried development mode in Cloudflare, cleared the cache. Still did not work.

– We checked REST API, it was enabled properly. But the problem was still there.

Then we found the problem.

Thing is, we use a custom Permalink settings. In it, we arranged links by category and then by post name. When saving a page in custom permalink. It did not load the Gutentor Featured Post Type.

However, when changing the Permalink Settings to just Plain. Then creating a new post in Gutentor Featured Post Type, the widget loads completely fine after saving it.

That created page works fine even after switching back to custom permalink. So the problem seems to be, permalink structure during saving the page, not during opening it.

So my request is, can you look into why this plugin is not working working properly in Custom permalink structure and please fix it.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by OurDigiTech.

Hi again.

This is the screenshot of the error message I get when loading and then saving the post.

I must mention, no such problem happens when I tried other Gutenburg based page editor plugins on the site.