Advanced Query Protection: Enabled

This page has been protected by AQP, a feature unique to The SEO Framework.

The URL you followed contains invalid or malformed query parameters. Instead of returning a 404, WordPress silently falls back to rendering this blog archive, listing every published post (as you can see below). This page was never meant to exist — but WordPress doesn’t have any protection built in.

The SEO Framework detected this and tells search engines to ignore this page. Without this protection, search engines would index this page (and all paginated pages hereof), wasting your site’s crawl budget, plausibly even tanking your site on search engines.

Below are the meta tags The SEO Framework outputted for this page. Note:

  1. The robots tag with noindex,nofollow — telling search engines not to index or follow links on this page.
  2. The tsf:aqp tag with value 1, confirming AQP is engaged.
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,max-snippet:-1,max-image-preview:large,max-video-preview:-1" />
<meta name="tsf:aqp" value="1" />
<meta name="theme-color" content="#057f9c" />
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="ef9qVg1ByiKG8Fmceb29tcASi35RHN18BVbLeflDvkI" />
<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="421B659F11052C7B8418E1336D4E81EC" />
<meta name="yandex-verification" content="77026bab278580e8" />
<meta name="p:domain_verify" content="393830a0c2039da8bc76ecaca6f89b98" />
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The big SEO plugin switch in WordPress

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With the recent update on Yoast SEO I saw a massive influx of users coming towards my plugin. I’ve read many complaints about Yoast SEO, its creator and his team. These comments are negative in nature, and meanwhile they lead them to The SEO Framework.

I believe I’m not in the position to comment on this. I’ve been avoiding mentioning Joost de Valk, his team and their plugin for quite some time now. However, as a fellow Dutchman and a free software programmer I do feel the need to express the following.