Hey TRUNG,
This was a busy week at WPBeginner, and I have lots to share with you.
I made a pretty controversial decision couple of weeks ago to disable several RSS feeds in WordPress.
And I believe this will become a trend as more people discover this problem.
I was browsing through my Google Search Console and realized that Google was crawling 80,000+ pages on my site but not indexing them!!!
This was delaying my new posts from showing up.
It turned out that a lot of those pages that search engines were crawling were useless RSS feeds.
WordPress creates RSS feeds for each post, page, category, tag, author, and so on.
This has been the case for years, but it seems Google is catching on.
So I had my team at All in One SEO build a feature called Crawl Cleanup to help me combat this.
After disabling several useless RSS feeds, I have reduced the wasted crawl budget by 50%, and my new posts are getting indexed faster.
Here's a quick tutorial on how you can disable RSS feeds in WordPress using the beginner-friendly plugin or code snippet method.
If you use the AIOSEO plugin, you can go with the default settings, and that will help clean up your Google crawl quota as well.
New WordPress Guides on WPBeginner:
- Recently a reader asked me if it was possible to moderate user registration in WordPress? It absolutely is. Here's an easy tutorial to enable user moderation to reduce spam.
- Want to add custom author's photo in WordPress? Here's a step-by-step guide on how to do that.
- Need to make a custom landing page for your Google Ads including the ability to dynamically change content for each campaign? Here's how Pros do it.
- Having problems with scheduled actions not working in WordPress? I wrote a tutorial on how to disable wp-cron and setup proper crons instead.
- Earlier in the year, I disabled Gravatar to speed up my website. Due to popular request, we shared how you can do it too.
- Looking to automatically publish photos to Instagram from WordPress? We made a helpful beginners guide for that.
- Want to add a wishlist feature to your WooCommerce store? This comes in really handy for letting customers create wedding registry or another gift registry. Here's a simple tutorial that covers how to do it.
- And if you're ever switching platforms and need to import external images, here's a way to automate that import in WordPress.
- We also created new video tutorials on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue and updated our ultimate WordPress SEO tutorial.
Have a great rest of your week :)
Cheers,
Syed Balkhi
Founder of WPBeginner | | | |
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