Issue: Google reports wiki pages as 'crawl anomaly'

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September 3, 2018 5:26 PM

Alfa1

Distinguished Member

Google reports wiki pages as 'crawl anomaly'

Google Search Console is reporting a large number of wiki pages as 'crawl anomaly'. For example:
/wiki/RCs

When entering the URL in the Google bot Fetch & render tool, it returns as 'Not Found'.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...hl=en&siteUrl=

I can visit the pages just fine.
There are a bunch of errors in the console:
unreachable code after return statement
and some js notices.

Do you have any idea what's happening here?

Issue Details

Issue Number 5470

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category Search Engine Optimization

Status Working as Designed

Priority 4 - Warnings / Script Errors

Affected Version 4.0.23

Fixed Version (none)

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyXenForo 1.x

License TypePaid

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

Tags (none)

September 4, 2018 10:40 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

RCs is a synonym that exists in a wiki area Wiki Redirects, and the guest permissions you have setup for that area are: Can view content saved in this area = Never. So it looks like the fact that Google cannot access the synonym is working as designed.

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September 4, 2018 11:58 AM

Alfa1

Distinguished Member

Why does the wiki redirects area lists 0 pages?

Is there a way to get all redirects automatically posted in the redirects area?
Currently redirects and attachments are all mixed in the SYSTEM area. Attachment pages need to be hidden from Google. Redirect pages need to be exposed.

I have now moved all synonyms to the redirects area. But the synonym page is still not visible to guests.

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September 4, 2018 2:43 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Wiki Redirects area lists 0 pages because it probably contains 0 pages. Synonyms are not pages. If you want to show synonyms by default in that area, you will need to change the area settings so that the default content-type filter is set to Synonyms instead of Pages.

If the redirects area is a sub-area of the System area, then the permissions might be inherited. In this case, you would need to implement custom permissions in the Wiki Redirects area.

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September 4, 2018 2:45 PM

Alfa1

Distinguished Member

I did apply custom permissions but somehow it has no effect.

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Issue: Google reports wiki pages as 'crawl anomaly'

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