Switching SEO Plugins

[Elizabeth RenwickMember]

I started the process of switching to seopress pro from yoast – and I’m getting a bunch of weird 404 errors now from the monitoring feature – things that don’t make sense to me, and I’m not sure where they are coming from!

Pages like /login.php and /user/register – anyone know why? These are the more straight forward errors I’m seeing, related to system pages – but I’m also getting some errors from plugins that have never even been on my site before? Example: wp-content/plugins/reflex-gallery/admin/scripts/FileUploader/php.php (never used that plugin before or even heard of it)

Any help would be appreciated – I’ve reached out to support last night but getting antsy for a reply and figured maybe someone here would know what’s going on?

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

Anyone? Still waiting for support to reply

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

Been 3 days since I purchased pro, switched, immediately have issues (dozens of 404’s for URLs I don’t understand) and support has not replied to my ticket yet – is that reasonable? Purchased on your recommendation – in case you are curious how you should rate them on the support end (not good).

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

It’s the weekend for them. Most software companies don’t offer support on weekends. It’s France, a different time zone.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

Hold your horses, writing an explanation

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

This is not SEOPress, these are BOTS scanning your site for vulnerabilities. You website is returning 404’s because it’s not vulnerable. This is perfectly normal.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

Thanks for the quick reply Adam, too bad you are the one providing support for them instead of a timely reply from the company itself – maybe I’m not understanding this feature properly, but I installed seopress on 30ish sites, with about 20 more to go – the result for turning on that feature is over 100 emails with 404’s in 3 days – it seems ongoing. Based on your reply it seems I don’t understand the features purpose – I thought it would act as a sort of broken link checker scanning my site and sitemaps for pages returning a 404? not true?

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

You can optionally use a security plugin that will blog IP addresses if there are excessive 404 pages on the url’s they visit. I don’t use that though because they can mess up and block the google bot.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

What you are saying just clicked to me, you are saying bots are “guessing” at URLs trying to find points of entries, and seopress is logging that as a 404 error from the attempted visit, correct? That seems to make sense actually.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

Yep that is it. I get it all the time, like literally non-stop.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

That is what is happening to me, do you keep the feature engaged? I am debating turning it off although I like the idea of it exposing potential problems quicker than search console. Thanks for clearing this up btw, the important part is knowing it’s not a major issue with my sites or the plugin.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

I would turn the notifications off for it.

[Peter WoottonKeymaster]

Hi, sorry for late answer, I was off for 5 days. I just replied to your ticket.

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