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Hello,
I recently had the YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter installed on my WordPress.com website. After a couple of weeks, I noticed that the Google Search Console set up for my site had flagged roughly 40k+ excluded URLs. When looking into this issue, I found that this plugin had created a page for every single activatable filter, and considering there were around 10-15 different product filters available, this caused a giant amount of pages. I changed the setting to stop the filter from creating separate pages, but that didn’t work. I decided to remove the plugin, but WordPress still recognizes the filter pages as active, even though it just redirects the user to the regular page itself.
I have blocked the links in my robot.txt file, and excluded them from Google Search Console, but the URLs still exist on the site and on GSC, and I can’t seem to find a resolution to the issue. Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated. As a side note, I currently have a WordPress.com-hosted website, so it is not easy for me to access the internal files within my site.
The link added to this post is only one page out of many just like it. How it doesn’t bring up a 404 error is beyond me. Could it be a cache issue?
Best,
Matthew.