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Help! WordPress wp-admin errors 503 ruin my rankings

by valtom
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Hello,

Two weeks ago I started getting crawl errors when checking the site health in Google Webmaster Tools.

All the errors relate to a WordPress directoty situated in the root of my webspace, e.g.

/WordPress/wp-admin/import.php
/WordPress/wp-admin/admin.php
/WordPress/wp-admin/async-upload.php
/WordPress/wp-admin/credits.php

(Googlebot couldn't access the contents of this URL because the server had an internal error when trying to process the request.)

At the same time, I observed that my keyword rankings have deteriorated drastically.

Since I didn't change anything on my website, can it be due to these crawl errors?

I am desperate and would appreciate any help.

My main website is in the root directory of my webspace, the WordPress blog has another URL with all the files in the WordPress directory (/WordPress...).
The crawl errors relate to the main website (root directory), the only connection between both URLs being a link to the "Blog" with redirect to the URL with the WordPress blog..

Please help!
Thank you very much in advance
#503 #errors #rankings #ruin #wordpress #wpadmin
  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Just add a line to your robots.txt file disallowing access to those subdirectories. You don't want Google crawling them anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    By default, WordPress creates a robots.txt file with:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Disallow: /wp-includes/

    which would prevent Google from attempting to look in those folders.

    Do you have a non-standard WordPress install?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    That has nothing to do with you ranking a page, those are backend pages, you don't want them ranked/Indexed anyways.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Originally Posted by valtom View Post

    Hello,

    Two weeks ago I started getting crawl errors when checking the site health in Google Webmaster Tools.

    All the errors relate to a WordPress directoty situated in the root of my webspace, e.g.

    /WordPress/wp-admin/import.php
    /WordPress/wp-admin/admin.php
    /WordPress/wp-admin/async-upload.php
    /WordPress/wp-admin/credits.php

    (Googlebot couldn't access the contents of this URL because the server had an internal error when trying to process the request.)

    At the same time, I observed that my keyword rankings have deteriorated drastically.

    Since I didn't change anything on my website, can it be due to these crawl errors?

    I am desperate and would appreciate any help.

    My main website is in the root directory of my webspace, the WordPress blog has another URL with all the files in the WordPress directory (/WordPress...).
    The crawl errors relate to the main website (root directory), the only connection between both URLs being a link to the "Blog" with redirect to the URL with the WordPress blog..

    Please help!
    Thank you very much in advance
    Yukon is right!
    These pages have nothing to do with SERP
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    • Profile picture of the author valtom
      Thanks! I already did it (disallow).
      Still, I cannot explain the sudden drop in rankings.
      If I check out my key words in Bing, my site comes up on top of the first page (like it used to be in Google), but if I google up the exact key words it looks like my site completely disappeared (about two or three weeks ago my site was also among the top hits on page 1 of search results).
      I also tried searchmetrics.com, where I had pretty high figures for visibility, social visibility and backlinks.
      Now, if I enter my website in searchmetrics, the message is: For the domain you entered no results were found in our database.
      SEO-wise (optimisation, backlinks etc.), I haven't changed anything since September, so the only reason I could think of was the (also sudden and unexplainable) appearance of these 503 errors.
      Should I wait and see? Just completely at a loss...
      Thanks once again!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    There was a Google Panda update on 21 Dec that affected 1.3% of search queries.
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    It could be a Google dance. You should wait for a while and check your keywords again. They must show in the rankings.
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