Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap — Yoast SEO

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• Crawl optimization purpose Report an error

  “With Yoast SEO, you can omit all the URLs that don’t have any SEO value. This makes crawling more efficient and alos reduces your site’s carbon footprint.”

• Crawl settings location Report an error

  “In your WordPress Dashboard, go to Yoast SEO Go to Settings Under Advanced, go to Crawl optimization”

• Remove shortlinks Report an error

  “The shortlink is basically a shortened version of the URL of the same page. With this toggle, you can remove that output.”

• Remove rest API links Report an error

  “If your site doesn’t use the WordPress REST API, you can safely use the toggle to remove this link.”

• Remove rsd wlw links Report an error

  “The WLW link is intended for users of the discontinued Windows Live Writer. If you do not use it, you can safely remove this link as well.”

• Remove oembed links Report an error

  “With this toggle, you can remove the oEmbed links from the <head> section of all your single posts.”

• Remove generator tag Report an error

  “This tag has no SEO value, and can potentially be a security threat. You can easily remove it with this toggle.”

• Remove pingback header Report an error

  “If you switch the toggle to remove, it will remove the X-Pingback: http://testsite.com/xmlrpc.php from the response header.”

• Remove powered by header Report an error

  “With this toggle, you remove the information about the PHP version your site is using from the response header.”

• Remove global feed Report an error

  “Remove global feed lets you remove the global feed, which is an overview of your recent posts.”

• Remove global comments feed Report an error

  “Remove global comments feed lets you remove the global comments feed, an overview of recent comments on your site. Disabling this feed will also disable the post comments feeds.”

• Remove post comments feed Report an error

  “Remove post comments feed is for removing the feed for recent comments on each post. If you enable or disable Remove global comments, the Remove post comments feed will automatically be enabled or disabled too.”

• Remove post author feeds Report an error

  “Remove post authors feed is for removing the feeds for recent posts by specific authors.”

• Remove post type feeds Report an error

  “Remove post type feeds lets you remove post type feeds, which provide information about your recent posts, for each post type.”

• Remove category feeds Report an error

  “Remove category feeds lets you remove category feeds, which provide information about your recent posts, for each category.”

• Remove tag feeds Report an error

  “Remove tag feeds lets you remove tag feeds, which provide information about your recent posts, for each tag.”

• Remove custom taxonomy feeds Report an error

  “Remove custom taxonomy feeds lets you remove custom taxonomy feeds, which provide information about your recent posts, for each custom taxonomy.”

• Remove search results feeds Report an error

  “Remove search results feeds lets you remove search results feeds, which provide information about your search reults”

• Remove atom rdf feeds Report an error

  “The final toggle allows you to remove Atom/RDF feeds, which are specific formats for feeds.”

• Remove emoji scripts Report an error

  “If you don’t use emojis in your content, you can safely remove the JavaScript used for converting emoji characters in older browsers.”

• Remove wp json API Report an error

  “Remove WP-JSON API allows you to prevent robots from crawling the WordPress JSON API endpoints.”

• Filter search terms Report an error

  “First of all, you can choose to filter search terms by switching the toggle behind Filter search terms.”

• Search filter max characters Report an error

  “If you choose to filter search terms, then you can set a maximum number of characters to allow in searches. This reduces the impact of spam attacks and confusing URLs.”

• Search filter emojis Report an error

  “You can also decide whether you want to block searches with emojis and other special characters, as these searches may be part of a spam attack.”

• Redirect pretty search urls Report an error

  “The plugin then redirects requests from the pretty format to the raw format, while maintaining any query parameters and/or pagination.”

• Prevent crawling search urls Report an error

  “The final option in this section is to prevent crawling of internal site search URLs. This adds a disallow rule to your robots.txt file so your internal site search URLs won’t be crawled.”

• Search urls noindex Report an error

  “It’s better to allow search engines to crawl these pages, but to prevent them from indexing them by using a noindex tag, which Yoast SEO automatically does for your site.”

• URL cleanup advanced Report an error

  “These are advanced settings that you should only use if you know what you are doing! To learn more read the Advanced crawl settings article.”

• Crawl settings ranking effect Report an error

  “Using the crawl settings in Yoast SEO will not harm your website’s crawlability or rankings.”

• Crawl settings crawl rate Report an error

  “the crawl settings in Yoast SEO do not have any effect on the crawl rate of a website.”

• Premium price Report an error

  “Get Yoast SEO Premium €118.80 / year (ex. VAT)”

• Premium 24 7 Report an error

  “24/7 Premium Support”

• Entity Report an error

  “© 2003-2026 Yoast BV Yoast is a trademark of Yoast BV”

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