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Thanks for your recommendation. If you’d like to see this as a feature we’d recommend you submit a feature request to our developers.
We’re actively using the bug tracking on our GitHub repository so your best next step would be to create a new feature request for our developers at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/new. You can create a new issue to submit your feature request. You will need an account to create one.
@geniuxcode Thanks for your message. Regarding your questions:
Does changing the sitemap affect SEO? My old sitemap.xml contains more than 1k URLs, and I noticed that Yoast Sitemap URL’s are different.
No, this won’t affect SEO. The sitemap is meant to indicate to bots what URLs should be indexed, and to understand your site’s structure.
Is it sufficient to deactivate the old plugin and activate Yoast Sitemap, or are there additional steps required?
We’d also recommend to remove the old sitemap URL from Google Search Console and submitting the new one.
After activating Yoast sitemap, do I need to resubmit the new sitemap URL to Google Search Console?
Yes, we would recommend that.
@ If you are using another plugin for schema you can disable schema output for the Yoast SEO by using the following filter:
add_filter( 'wpseo_json_ld_output', '__return_false' );We have more information available on this in our Schema API documentation.
@djwilko12 If you want to change the output of the
Personschema, this can be accomplished using thewpseo_schema_personfilter.We have additional information and usage examples available in the developer documentation here: Change Organization Schema Output.
Thanks for the clarification. Regarding your issue, can you please try using the following and let us know whether this resolves the error in Google Search Console?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /subjects/
Disallow: /ngg_tag/
Disallow: /Archives/
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://www.saanichsommeliers.ca/sitemap_index.xmlIf it doesn’t, can you please provide us with the exact errors that Google Search Console is returning for the robots.txt file?
Thanks for your reply. I checked the post in the Facebook sharing debugger and found that the image preview is now appearing as expected (see image here).
In addition, I tested the link on Facebook and the link preview there also displayed the image correctly as well (see image here).
If the issue occurs again, can you please try using a .jpg, .gif, or .png instead of .webp and see whether it resolves the issue? As per Facebook’s guidelines for og:image, .webp is not officially a supported image format for og:image.
@anthyx Thanks for your reply.
This issue was specific to the 3.18 so it appears it was addressed as part of the 3.18.1 updated. If you should need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to let us know.
@slyronit I reviewed the content and didn’t see anything immediately apparent that would violate their guidelines. We’d recommend to respond back to Bing and ask for more details about what in your content specifically violates their guidelines.
@omribar51 Thanks for providing the screenshot.
We reviewed this and we think that you are not wanting the domain name appear in the breadcrumb as it’s title. Is that correct?
If so, you can edit the Breadcrumb Title by following the directions found here.
Thanks for confirming that updating Firefox resolved the issue. If you should need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to let us know.
@devxpe Thanks for your reply.
Regarding your issue, the links below the search results are called Sitelinks, and Google selects them based on your site structure. Yoast SEO automatically adds all the necessary Schema needed to generate Sitelinks. So you won’t need to change anything from the plugin.
You could signal to Google which links you want to appear by using the following actions:
- Provide a clear structure for your website, using relevant internal links and anchor text that’s informative, compact, and avoids repetition. These guides explain more: Blog SEO: add and maintain categories on your blog and Clean the Site Structure
- Allow Google to crawl and index important pages within your site. Use Inspect any URL to check that they render correctly.
- Consider using noindex to remove pages you do not want to be shown in search results. This guide explains more: How Do I Noindex URLs?
- Be sure to resubmit your sitemap to Google, as it will encourage them to crawl your site and update the search index. This guide explains more: Submit Sitemap to Google
- You may also wish to contact Google for more information on how they decide which links appear by making a post on their forums.
@kees78 Thanks for posting your solution. If you should need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to let us know.
@gilesk Thanks for confirming that your issue was resolved by reinstalling.
We checked on the page and are currently seeing the canonical for as pointing to https://eddu.pro/programming/
Regarding paginated content, its the default behavior of the plugin to point paginated content to the page in question, not the first page of the content.
If you do wish to change the canonical value we have a guide on how to this here. Also, the canonical URL can be change programmatically using the
wpseo_canonicaldeveloper filter, as described here.It isn’t necessary to remove the page-sitemap.xml from the sitemap_index.xml. When you submit your sitemap to Google or any other search engine though, its important to only submit the main sitemap_index.xml URL. Google will then read all of the child sitemaps, including page-sitemap, and the URLs that each child sitemap contains. So you only need to submit sitemap_index.xml and not the child sitemaps it contains.
