how it's possible??[Google went banana]

[SeedPhrase]

I've kept some posts as a draft(not yet published) but that's showing in search console.....and showing the last crawl yesterday
not published articles getting crawled how?
any idea guys???

 

[MisterXYZ]

Something wrong with your wordpress setup.

 

[seoz87]

thats not possible :S

 

[chipsie1102]

If it's a draft then obviously the content does exist on your website - it's possible your sitemaps are including these draft urls and Googlebot is finding them through that?

Either way, nothing to worry about I guess. Just shows Google is hungry for more of your content

 

[BrandingCat]

Your WordPress configuration goes kiwi.

 

[SamLewis]

The URLs still get created but only those with permissions can view the unpublished content.
It does seem off that your site is set to index unpublished content. It would usually be set to no-index, as its now likely google has crawled those URLs but will not see the article, only the layout.

 

[cooxer]

1. Check your sitemaps.
2. Check your WP configuration.
3. Check your SEO plugin configuration.

I had similar experience with Yoast just my blog posts somehow went no-index

 

[SeedPhrase]

Something wrong with your wordpress setup.

thats not possible :S

Your WordPress configuration goes kiwi.

I have not faced this kind of issue before.....i think so my wp config issue

If it's a draft then obviously the content does exist on your website - it's possible your sitemaps are including these draft urls and Googlebot is finding them through that?

Either way, nothing to worry about I guess. Just shows Google is hungry for more of your content

I guess sitemap doesn't consider unpublished articles, but in my case, I can see them in sitemap..some outdated content doesn't even exist now 404 google keep crawling them as well..whats wrong idk

The URLs still get created but only those with permissions can view the unpublished content.
It does seem off that your site is set to index unpublished content. It would usually be set to no-index, as its now likely google has crawled those URLs but will not see the article, only the layout.

unpublished articles usually set no-index by Yoast...it showing no-index in the dashboard as well but when I checked in GSC is showing crawled today itself.

1. Check your sitemaps.
2. Check your WP configuration.
3. Check your SEO plugin configuration.

I had similar experience with Yoast just my blog posts somehow went no-index

I can see unpublished articles in sitemap..wtf

 

[cooxer]

I can see unpublished articles in sitemap..wtf

Yost is f*cked up these days. Try rankmath instead. You can import all Yoast settings.

 

[MisterXYZ]

Seems either Yoast roasted your website or your messed up something.

Yooast can not include unpublished articles in sitemap.

Even if Yoast includes unpublished articles in sitemap due to some bug, you will get 404 error for those articles.

So better check everything.

 

[Mr Positive]

This is really weird af contact yoast and tell us what they said