Cache Flush in Search Console

  • Resolved maxward1234

    (@maxward1234)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    I recently had a W3TC-related error in Search Console, unfortunately.

    The problem is that GSC has seemed to pick up the Cache Flush URL (page=w3tc_dashboard&w3tc_flush_minify&_wpnonce) and I’m now getting the “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” error.

    I’ve tried to simply Validate it, but this has failed. Just wondering if anyone has experienced this before and, if so, what you did to resolve the error?

    Thanks,
    Max

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @maxward1234

    I am sorry about the issue you are experiencing and I am happy to assist you with this.
    This is nothing to be concerned about as this will not affect anything. You can simply ignore it or to fix this, you should audit your robots.txt file to identify the rule that’s blocking the pages.
    You can find the Google robots.txt tester page here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots-testing-tool
    You should edit or remove the rules affecting the pages you want to fix.
    After you have fixed the file, click the “Validate Fix” button in Google Search Console.
    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter maxward1234

    (@maxward1234)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @vmarko

    Thanks for coming back to me on this.

    I’ve just had a look and the robots file it is admittedly pretty basic, however if I’m reading right does already block the admin area (the page=w3tc_dashboard&w3tc_flush_minify&_wpnonce URL is under the admin area as you know).

    I’ve pasted the file below. Any further thoughts on how I could resolve this? Or enhancements I could make to the robots file?

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

    Many thanks again.

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @maxward1234

    Try adding the following:
    Allow /wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_dashboard&w3tc_flush_minify&_wpnonce
    Thank you!

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