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Google search console is telling me I have site wide issues.
12 replies · Started by RJ on May 4, 2021
Hey there,
Google search console is telling me I have site wide issues.
Please see this screenshot of the error message here:
https://www.screencast.com/t/c6OfRTHIv
Could you please help me fix this problem? Many thanks.
Robin
Hi there,
Looking at the image, it seems like the CSS for the page didn't run.
Can you link us to the page in question to check?
You can use the private information text field to provide the site details. Let us know.
Hi Elvin
The page in the image is:
https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/wild-garlic-dandelion-salad
However Googl eis telling me this problem is affecting most of my posts/pages.
TIA
Hi there,
that shows the style sheets are not being loaded - on the Mobile Friendly Test here on the More Details tab:
You will see the 1 x CSS and 2 x JS files are being blocked by your robots.txt file.
Check the robots.txt to make sure you don't have any disallow rules that are blocking the following:
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Thanks David. These had 'Disallow' next to them.
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
I have removed them from the robots.txt file.
I assume that's what you meant?
Thats correct - do you have any other disallow rules ? As they are still being blocked by the looks of it
Yes I do. I've added them in the 'Private information' section.
Remove:
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
I have removed that /wp-content/cache but it still returns the same error message on my end.
Thoughts?
Here's a screengrab showing it affecting 400 pages/posts:
https://www.screencast.com/t/r0b98EPOMvwi
It seems those changes are not being picked up by google.
If i check the details tab on the Mobile Friendly test and click the robots.txt link it provides - it still shows:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /rss
Disallow: /comments/feed
Disallow: /feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /dlpdfs
Disallow: /uploads
Googlebot Allow: .js Allow: .css
# BEGIN XML-SITEMAP-PLUGIN
Sitemap: http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/sitemap.xml.gz
# END XML-SITEMAP-PLUGIN
This could be the file is being cached by the server or CDN. Or the edits being made are not being applied. Can you clear any server caches and check the robots.txt file via FTP ?
I've just checked via FTP and I have also just cleared the CDN cache.
Everything is looking A, OK.
Thanks for your help.
Just ran another mobile friendly test to check and it passed :)
Glad to be of help.