Crawled but not included

[MrMedia]

So I was looking through search console and I noticed a ton of urls that are classed as crawled but not included.

When I investigated they were like this -

mysite.com/realpostname/feed

I am glad they are not indexed as the real post is already indexed.

However I then thought - am I wasting crawl budget on these urls that are meaningless? If yes how would I stop Googlebot crawling them to spend more time crawling my real content?

 

[Ryuzaki]

That looks like some kind of RSS feed for comments on each post.

In the case that you're using a pre-built theme, you'll either want to create a child theme and edit the comments.php to add rel="nofollow" to links to RSS feeds or reply links/buttons.

Or preferably you'd find a function that will add that for you through a filter.

 

[DarkRed]

Check this out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34750148/how-to-delete-remove-wordpress-feed-urls-in-header

 

[Sutra]

Will doing either of the above prevent articles from being syndicated via RSS? I have the same type of thing with the feed urls showing crawled but not indexed. I'd like to not have those crawled, but I do want my articles syndicated via RSS.

 

[DarkRed]

I don't think so. It's just the links that are removed. RSS takes the data from example.com/feed