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Found the reason. A plugin was working weirdly to make firewall blocking some IPs, unfortunately including some Google bots IP. Removing those IPs, then I could validate robots file again. And hopefully Google will validate the sitemap soon.

I haven't changed anything in robots.txt file. But suddenly, GSC cannot access my sitemap anymore. The error is: general http error. When I use URL Inspection tool for checking the sitemap, the error is: Robots.txt cannot be accessed However, the robots file is accessible. Tried to download it...

GSC keeps reporting 404 with https://mydomain.com/bidata/ I had /bidata/ sub-folder long time ago, but it's removed more than 2 years already. I have double checked in all sitemaps, all the links there are working. No internal link to /bidata/ URL, even checked in the database. Have used...

In my WooCommerce website (around 650 products), I already have a sitemap for all products. Each product has different attributes. Yoast SEO creates extra sitemaps for each attributes. Do I need them? Thanks.

In GSC, I have multiple warnings with that reason Excluded with a "noindex" tag Yes, that's correct, I don't want them to be indexed, for example, WooCommerce product feeds. And I don't want to have warnings in GSC either. How to fix GSC issue? I already have robots.txt with the below content...

I am using Yoast SEO. In the sitemap_index.xml, there is no feed link. However, GSC keeps digging into feeds such as https://mydomain/shop/product-name/feed and shows that the link is excluded with noindex tag. How can I get rid of these warnings in GSC? Thank you.

Thanks a lot for replies.

I am not a fan of Elementor. Slow, new versions repeatedly have old bugs... I myself try to avoid any page builder, but if really need to use one, I hear good things about Oxygen and Bricks.

One potential customer shows me his situation: a lot of japanese links appear with his domain, when searching on Google. He asks me to clean it. I thought I read somewhere that I need to clean in GSC, but hopefully someone can share the correct way to do it? Thank you.

In a e-commerce website, usually we have multiple products. When resource for SEO is limited, we cannot try to do SEO for 50, 100 or even more keywords, corresponding to these products. So, how to choose which keywords we should focus on first? Which factors do we need to consider? Thank you.

I have a customer who just changed around 700+ product URLs. The reason is for integrating with their billing program, so cannot undo. The issue now is the old product URLs are 404. The old URLs are in English, while the new URLs are in Norwegian. For example, from /goa-black-gold-butter-knife/...

I would check if the website code is allowing to put one product in multiple categories. WordPress can do it easily, but if you are using different platform, you can read its document.

I see one of my customers losing organic traffic to their sites. Is there anywhere that I can see and explain the situation? Or it just can happen anytime Google updates their algorithm?

Just found out BHW. I have been working in hosting industry almost 20 years. In the last few years, also working as a WP developer. Would like to learn more about SEO and web optimisation from BHW community. Thank you.