Title: Speculation Rules causing Google bot crawl errors
Last modified: June 16, 2025

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# Speculation Rules causing Google bot crawl errors

 *  Resolved [Cam Bruhns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camvibrant/)
 * (@camvibrant)
 * [11 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speculation-rules-causing-google-bot-crawl-errors/)
 * Have been having some trouble with this code, which gets injected in the footer
   via wp_footer(). My SEO team has indicated that it is responsible for causing
   google bots to refuse re-crawling pages.
 * `{"prefetch":[{"source":"document","where":{"and":[{"href_matches":"\/*"},{"not":{"
   href_matches":["\/wp-*.php","\/wp-admin\/*","\/wp-content\/uploads\/*","\/wp-
   content\/*","\/wp-content\/plugins\/*","\/wp-content\/themes\/my_theme\/*","\/*\\?(.
   +)"]}},{"not":{"selector_matches":"a[rel~=\"nofollow\"]"}},{"not":{"selector_matches":".
   no-prefetch, .no-prefetch a"}}]},"eagerness":"conservative"}]}`
 * **Here are the articles my team provided:**
    - [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#will_i_be_indexed](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#will_i_be_indexedhttps://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-of-my-pages-cannot-be-indexed/https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/10533591/url-will-be-indexed-only-if-certain-conditions-are-met?hl=en)
    - [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-of-my-pages-cannot-be-indexed/](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#will_i_be_indexedhttps://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-of-my-pages-cannot-be-indexed/https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/10533591/url-will-be-indexed-only-if-certain-conditions-are-met?hl=en)
    - [https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/10533591/url-will-be-indexed-only-if-certain-conditions-are-met?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#will_i_be_indexedhttps://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-of-my-pages-cannot-be-indexed/https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/10533591/url-will-be-indexed-only-if-certain-conditions-are-met?hl=en)
 * Essentially, it appeared that this “`prefetch`” installed on the site (that hadn’t
   been present before) was causing google to avoid re-crawling pages. Pages could
   be submitted but once read they would not be indexed again.
 * Thanks,
   Cameron

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 *  Plugin Support [Lea WPServeur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leacomm/)
 * (@leacomm)
 * [11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speculation-rules-causing-google-bot-crawl-errors/#post-18535829)
 * Hello, 
   thank you for using WPS Hide Login.Could you please clarify if the issue
   you’re experiencing is related to the custom login URL?This may be related to
   a script injected by another plugin…

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