Common WordPress Issues

1. WordPress Issues – 2X <title>

The title tag gives users and the search engines an idea of what the content of a result is about and how it’s related to the search query.

Should there be more than one <title> tag, it can cause some confusion for search engines with picking the right one for the page. Also, multiple <title> tags might alarm Google’s algorithms as a black-hat SEO trick to target more keywords.

If search engines pick up a non-relevant <title> tag, it can mislead users and result in high bounce rate which, subsequently, is harmful to rankings. Ensure that each of your pages has only one title tag, and it’s relevant to the pages’ content.

Possible Reasons:

• WordPress might automatically generate titles following a preset template in Plug-ins, resulting in identical title tags for different pages.
• Multiple or Identical title Tags in Code

Fix:

• Update the Custom Theme template for WP
• Check tile tags in code

2. RSS Feed URLs:

If the site utilizes an RSS feed, URLs might appear in Google’s “Crawled — currently not indexed” report. These URLs often have the “/feed/” string appended to the end. Google finds these RSS feed URLs linked from the primary page, typically using a “rel=alternate” element. WordPress plugins like Yoast can automatically generate these URLs. While this XML document is useful for RSS feeds, there’s no need for Google to include it in the index.

Google doesn’t want these pages to appear in search results, so it doesn’t index them, as they are not meant for direct user consumption

No action is necessary. Google’s non-indexing of these pages is intentional and beneficial to prevent low-quality or duplicate content from appearing in search results.

3. Plugin Marks out CTM or hyperlinks any other tracking.

Navigate to Plesk > WordPress > Files > httpdocs > wp-content > themes > tnt-custom > header

Fix the CTM as req (remove the appended URL)