jQuery removal of /comments/feed causes Googlebot to pickup and mark as 403 error
garretthyder opened this issue · comments
I recently noticed that in Google Webmasters tool that there was a 403 error on /comments/feed/ and I was wondering why it would pick that up.
After investigation I found the only reference to it was the jquery snippet to strip that link;
jQuery(function($){ $(".widget_meta a[href='http://getlostfindyourself.ca/comments/feed/']").parent().remove(); });
So obviously Googlebot picked up this instance so I'll think on this and come up with a way to strip that link without explicitly using the link in the selector.
Happy for any thoughts
Cheers
It seems like the check we are currently doing (to see whether the widget is active ) doesn't work properly - the JS is being rendered even when the widget isn't displayed on the page. For me this is a bigger issue than the 404s it generates. We are injecting useless JS into the pages of thousands of sites.
To be honest, I think the best solution here is just to drop that code entirely rather than trying to monkey-patch the Meta widget.
Thanks @solarissmoke sounds like the right path here, too bad those list items aren't filterable. Cheers