strange google webmaster feedback about pixel.wp.com blocking a page of mine
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Can you get back to the screen you saw here?
http://janicednelson.com/?attachment_id=2053 -
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I am going to add a screen print to my library. When I click option 2 on the screen you linked to, the image I am uploading displays. It wants access to a page I dont own… wordpress does
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Okay, I see what it’s doing.
It’s saying “pixel.wordpress.com” is blocked. Your site is not blocked. You do not need to worry about pixel.wordpress.com because that is not your site — it’s just a single image on your site, and you don’t need Google to explore the contents of pixel.wordpress.com . Your site is not blocked so there’s nothing to worry about there.
About the structured data errors: Google is treating your portfolio items like news articles that need updated dates and authors. They are not news articles, they are portfolio pieces, so you won’t need to worry about those errors either.
Just to be positive your site is not blocked, I googled “woodland chaparral fine art print” and your site comes up first for me. Your site is doing everything it’s supposed to do.
These “errors” are pretty aggressive looking but you can go ahead and dismiss them.
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Ah, but I do “worry” about them and I am not going to let these go. WordPress like other third party providers should not be blocking these things. Here is a link that details this practice of blocking resources by a web guru Patrick Sexton of Varvy.com: https://plus.google.com/+PatrickSexton/posts/UxFcUySQfCd
I need to know how to fix these errors. I will do my part for the things I can address, but I need WordPress to do its part and not tell me to just ignore the errors. That’s not right.
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I need to know how to fix these errors.
They are not errors. Moreover, you are reading stuff that applies to wordpress.ORG software installs. Please read this thread that macmanx answered for me 3 years ago https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blocked-urls-robotstxt-google-wembaster-reports?replies=6
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You are welcome to contact Google to see if they will remove the errors that appear on their report. Your site is functioning exactly as it should, and it is showing up properly in google searches.
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I am not reading rogue data. I logged into my google webmaster account. I selected my own websites – .com. It did not return the errors – which it identified as errors by the way in red – for a .org website as I clicked on the reports for .com. It didn’t just jump over to someone else’s website. I don’t know what you are thinking. Anyway, the latest Google Webmaster suggestion is to not block resources, certain not for google to return items listed as errors (my language), but they are in red and state they are missing data. In fact there are over 30 pages. If it is something I can fix, I will gladly do so. But as far as I can tell, these are due to something wordpress is doing on my pages. I uploaded some of the screen prints. I’d upload a full pdf, but I don’t think the library accepts these.
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For what it is worth supernovia, I appreciate your trying to help me. I don’t mean to get you upset when I ask for these thing that are identified by google webmasters as problems that need to be addressed. On the other hand, you should not expect someone trying to get a critical page at their website to not report missing data or information that would help boost the websites performance. As the link I sent you states, and I am assuming Patrick Sexton is way more the expert than me, the latest recommendation from Google – not from 2012 but the latest – is to have third parties not block resources. I have been working on my site and will continue to try to improve it so that when I run it though these various checks, they all report as they should. Please know, when people are trying to get a website critical to what they do for a living up and running, it is not likely they will just drop it and ignore it. My goal for now is to get this site up and running as it should so I can compare its results and stats with another site of mine at another provider. Whichever produces the best result, I will likely upgrade to the max and get rid of the other site in time. I am just trying to work towards that goal. I did not mean to get you upset by pursuing this.
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Is there a way to edit these posts, so I don’t have to keep adding individual new posts? FYI, I know the 30 some pages of missing data is not saying the pages are blocked, just that it contains important missing data on authorship.
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I found a link to a site that explains why these “missing author” errors occur (on pages not posts which makes sense since I am using mainly pages) and what has to happen to remove the errors.
You have to “remove the wordpress hentry class from pages.”
I’ve also taken a screen print of the key info and added it to my library.
Here is the full link to the post that explains how to remove the types of errors appearing on my website and it says doing this will have all the structured data errors disappear. I would appreciate it very much if someone from wordpress would look into this for my site (and likely others):
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On the other hand, you should not expect someone trying to get a critical page at their website to not report missing data or information that would help boost the websites performance.
Please let us know how this is affecting your site’s performance and we’ll address that.
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Let me get this straight based on your last two answers.
1. WP’s official response to users following Google Webmaster Tools Feedback is that a) they should expect Google to manage their websites and fix “errors” their tools report and b) we should not expect WP to fix or address “errors” the tools report unless we first conduct statistical research that proves to WP what Google tells its users – that it can potentially impact their sites performance? Is that WP’s official response to all its users getting the author errors?You know, I ignored your previous improper response (rerouting a user to Google to address errors their tools report), and I am continuing to try to do my part to have a website that is able to execute through the various reports without errors. It’s not a horrible thing that you seem to make it. I don’t know why users have to be patrionized in such a way when they merely are asking for wordpress.com assistance on something potentially impacting many users. What is the big deal. I even sent you the link with specific information on what needs to happen. Why is this a horrible thing to ask WordPress to care for? I don’t get all this dialogue and deliberate attempt to make things difficult on a user requesting support. Don’t dismiss our requests. We are just asking for technical help and not to be told, oh don’t worry about that and figuratively patted on the head and dismissed…
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I can see you’re upset. I’m not trying to dismiss you. I just need to know the answer to this question before we can continue:
How this is affecting your site’s performance?
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Not upset. Just think your notion of support most likely does not fit with the official WP group’s idea of support.
Once again you have not answered my question or addressed the solution I posted. Clearly you do not intend to fix this. I don’t know why. Makes no sense to me that someone writing asking for support and who provides the research showing a possible fix should have to engage in verbal games.
If you don’t know why Google Webmaster elects to point out the errors to its users and suggest they fix them, then I can only recommend it is YOU who should contact Google and brush up on the most current Google Recommendations. I don’t believe the solution is to avoid the fix someone posts, not answer questions, tell them to revalidate their site (NA), tell them to post pictures you don’t intend to address, tell them to ignore the errors, then tell them to contact google for help, and finally tell them to conduct the equivalent of statistical research. If you honestly don’t know why Google recommends these be fixed, then why are you asking your users to find this out for you? A more appropriate response might have been to simply say “we will look into this. I don’t know if we will be able to do this because of xxxx reason” or something more honest than verbal games. People just want plain, clear answers for what they see and why WP does not want to fix the errors. Even a “it would cost us more money then we feel it is worth, since it isn’t our blogs” would be more honest. Not nice, but at least honest.
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Tell me – separate question, I am on the free plan. I currently only pay to upgrade my site name. If I upgraded to the premium business plan, is the support any better?
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The support on upgraded blogs comes from the same Staff who will ask the same key question which is:
How this is affecting your site’s performance?
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Hello Janice,
So, this is one of those complicated “Google” things, I’m afraid.
The short answer is that the information you have gotten is correct. That error will have no negative side-effects, and won’t impact your site performance, display, or its ranking. Blocking using robots.txt is exactly how google instructs site owners to block content from indexing:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en
The longer answer is that, in theory, you shouldn’t be seeing that as blocked. There was a timeframe earlier this summer when pixel.wp.com was blocked via the robots.txt file. But that is no longer the case.
Can I ask you what on date you ran your report that gave you this information? Were you running it for a specific date range? Or just as an overall “checkup”?
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