highlandmoss

I really need to hear from you as I saw a sudden drop in sales (other than from local customers) which made me think we had an indexing issue.

When I checked, it looked like everything was indexed and all good – but then when I started checking URLs I could see pretty much everything except our main page is no longer indexed!

I am happy to ask searchanise to undo the changes they made but I would really like you to see if you can see the cause for sure please.

Thank you so much for this, very informative and excellent support.

I unchecked sitelinks and I have approached Searchanise about your suggestions (I have a plan with them where they will customise the plugin for me).

This is what they responded with (I gave them the link to this thread and quote you directly):

“

​Hello Craig, 

Thank you for your message. 

Do I get it right that you’d like us to change URLs like https://highlandmoss.com/shop-2/?page=1&rb_custom_taxonomy_plant-genus=Begonia to https://highlandmoss.com/shop-2/?paged=1&rb_custom_taxonomy_plant-genus=Begonia ? 

Please confirm or elaborate on your query. Thank you!”

I let them know that this particular level of SEO and understanding pagination is beyond my knowledge but I think this is what you meant.

Can you please confirm if this is how the links should be structured? I would prefer this method as you suggested it was better than using a default sitemap.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for this. Brilliant support and I appreciate you explaning not only how it works, but how my specific (janky as it may be) setup works in relation to your plugin and general SEO.

I know using Searchanise to replace my shop loop is a bit hacky but I have been through dozens and dozens of different plugins and ways of presenting my shop and have found this was best for performance and user experience.

Eventually I will replace this again with something more custom that utilises the native features.

I just added the snippet, cleared the cache and tested a live url and got the same noindex error. I will do a deeper clearout from cloudflare and on my hosting panel (maybe object cache didnt flush properly for example) and try again.

If you are around today I would appreciate you giving it a final check.

I noindexed search results as suggested – I already had followed your instructions on the others. I have some other items in the list from hooked elements but will come back to that once we have this indexing issue sorted first.

Thanks again!

Hi,

Thank you for the updated information.

I have added the code to wpconfig and disabled indexing on the things you suggested.

The only one I left off was search. I use Searchanise and I have modified it slightly to replace my woocommerce shop loop. So I fear if I was to noindex searches, it might consider my whole shop as search results.

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I think I figured it out myself.

There is a conflict with EWWW image optimiser when using the CDN so I added style.css for max mega menu into exclusions.

I also enabled the fix for wp rocket and it is loading properly.

Thank you!