I have Duplicate without user-selected canonical in GSC

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halamadrid7

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Few links are showing under the head of Duplicate without user-selected canonical such as https://webistename(dot)extension/keyword/feed/atom all the links have suffix feed/atom. How to solve it? How's the idea of redirecting these URLs with 301 to homepage?
 
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Please share some good solution even i also had those kinds of issues. It would be grateful to me too.
 
It's not a probem, they're added by WP by default (feed & atom feed),
Just block "*/feed/*" in robots.txt and ignore the messages, nothing to worry about
 
hideath said:
It's not a probem, they're added by WP by default (feed & atom feed),
Just block "*/feed/*" in robots.txt and ignore the messages, nothing to worry about
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As far as I understand, the /feed/ pages are mostly for RSS readers. Newsboat, Feedly, Newsblur, etc.

@halamadrid7 If you have an SEO plugin, you can select the option to not allow /feed/ pages to be created. Yoast had this feature at one point. SEOFramework does too, I believe?
 
hideath said:
It's not a probem, they're added by WP by default (feed & atom feed),
Just block "*/feed/*" in robots.txt and ignore the messages, nothing to worry about
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If I block the feed then, there will be no issue, or I can ignore it and just can't do anything.
 
PHPInjected said:
As far as I understand, the /feed/ pages are mostly for RSS readers. Newsboat, Feedly, Newsblur, etc.

@halamadrid7 If you have an SEO plugin, you can select the option to not allow /feed/ pages to be created. Yoast had this feature at one point. SEOFramework does too, I believe?
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I am using RankMath. Yoast has good features then, RM?
 
halamadrid7 said:
If I block the feed then, there will be no issue, or I can ignore it and just can't do anything.
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There won't be any issue either case,
But it would be better to block them to save crawling budget
 
Thanks for the advice would you help me how to deal with this issue with an alternative page with a proper canonical tag? There is no post or page permalink so, on my side there will be no issue if these URLs will not index
 
halamadrid7 said:
Thanks for the advice would you help me how to deal with this issue with an alternative page with a proper canonical tag? There is no post or page permalink so, on my side there will be no issue if these URLs will not index
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just ignore it, it's not a problem, just a report
 
hideath said:
just ignore it, it's not a problem, just a report
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There will be issues with my crawling budget if I ignore them I think and also, there are 185+ post permalinks that are not indexed due to (Crawled - currently not indexed). What changes do I have to make to index them?
 
halamadrid7 said:
There will be issues with my crawling budget if I ignore them I think and also, there are 185+ post permalinks that are not indexed due to (Crawled - currently not indexed). What changes do I have to make to index them?
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The problem is most likely tied with spam or/and low authority/trust,
If the posts/pages are relatively new, you should give them some time to index (a couple of weeks),

Google is kinda picky & more strict with indexed pages nowadays,
If they're not indexed after a good period of time, there's something wrong with the website/pages,
Can't really tell the exact reasons for your case
 
hideath said:
The problem is most likely tied with spam or/and low authority/trust,
If the posts/pages are relatively new, you should give them some time to index (a couple of weeks),

Google is kinda picky & more strict with indexed pages nowadays,
If they're not indexed after a good period of time, there's something wrong with the website/pages,
Can't really tell the exact reasons for your case
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I got your point so, will make changes in content help out or the issue will be resolved after making changes in the structure of the site?
 
halamadrid7 said:
I got your point so, will make changes in content help out or the issue will be resolved after making changes in the structure of the site?
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I can't really tell, there are plenty of reasons behind this,
Could be the content, links, low authority, lack of topical authority, lack of internal links (orphan pages), etc...
Whatever makes sense that Google is considering your pages as unworthy for indexing & that's not a really good sign
 
Redirecting or combing the similar( if possible looking at the content) URLs to their corresponding homepage versions using 301 redirects will help search engines understand the preferred version
 
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