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/wp-content pages in Wordpress are being indexed as its own page

I'm getting dozens of unwanted indexed pages in Wordpress that are actually media files URLs like this one: /wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Ellipse-78

I added a rule in my robots.txt, but I'm not sure it's okay because I do want crawlers to track my favicon.

Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/

What should I do? Thank you all

Solution

  • Indexing means you can find your favicon when searching using Google image. I guess what you want is having your favicon alongside your website name in search results.

    Just having the correct HTML pointing to the favicon is fine:

    <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

    Or you could have the default favicon.ico in your root path. So even if you disallow /wp-content/uploads/ your favicon should appear in Google results.