Title: Coverage issues on Google
Last modified: April 12, 2022

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# Coverage issues on Google

 *  [terryatable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terryatable/)
 * (@terryatable)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coverage-issues-on-google/)
 * Hi.
    Can anyone please help me with this. I have coverage issues on Google webmasters,
   with the below and I don’t understand why they are being crawled. Thanks in advance.
 *     ```
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/SimplePie/Cache/DB.php
       7 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-themes-controller.php
       7 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/Requests/Exception/HTTP/Unknown.php
       7 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/Requests/Transport/cURL.php
       7 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/SimplePie/Cache/MySQL.php
       5 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/SimplePie/Cache/File.php
       5 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/SimplePie/Cache/Memcached.php
       5 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/SimplePie/Cache/Memcache.php
       5 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/SimplePie/Cache/Redis.php
       5 Apr 2022
       https://abledomestics.co.uk/wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php
       5 Apr 2022
       ```
   
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcoverage-issues-on-google%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coverage-issues-on-google/#post-15556450)
 * This happens because your hosting has DirectoryListing enabled. This means that
   when you call up the wp-includes directory, you see all the files contained there.
   And a GoogleBot naturally includes them in the index, since this is not blocked.
 * I have 2 recommendations for this:
    a) Deactivate the DirectoryListing in your
   hosting. Your hoster’s support should be able to explain to you how to do this.
   b) Add the following line to robots.txt at [https://abledomestics.co.uk/robots.txt](https://abledomestics.co.uk/robots.txt):
 * `Disallow: /wp-includes`
 *  Thread Starter [terryatable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terryatable/)
 * (@terryatable)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coverage-issues-on-google/#post-15559611)
 * Thanks a lot for this. I have edited the robots txt.
    Regards.

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 * Last reply from: [terryatable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terryatable/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coverage-issues-on-google/#post-15559611)
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