Why I start to getting this error on two sites with Newspaper theme:
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New Index coverage issue detected for site https://www.mydomain.com/
Mar 10, 2018
To owner of https://www.mydomain.com/,
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 new Index coverage related issue. This means that Index coverage may be negatively affected in Google Search results. We encourage you to fix this issue.
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Then I go to search.google.com -> Status -> Index Coverage -> click on Error tab.
Server Errors (5xx)
Url: https://www.mojesunce.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper
Wwhen I try to reach for myself this link via browser (path of theme), I also get 5xx error. But also I have try to reach manually theme folder for other worpdress popular sites and I get the same error.
Why google is try to reach and index theme folder only for tagdiv Newspaper theme wordpress instances? I checked my sitemap.xml, Yoast didn’t added theme folder to sitemap.
Thank you for any suggestions.
Hello,
It should not search for the theme folder. I’m not sure why this happens. As you can imagine, you cannot access the theme folders in the browser.
You can use robots.txt to prevent google from indexing parts of your site though.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-optimize-your-wordpress-robots-txt-for-seo/
Thank you!
Yes thank you, I already added
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
to robots.txt and now it is fine.
Just asking because I use newspaper on two wordpress installations and both get the same error from google webmaster tools. Other wordpress installation didn’t have this problem.
Thank you.
