I have inherited a WordPress site with the owner’s goal being to boost SEO. Their selected tool is SemRush, and they are particularly concerned with the “On Page SEO Checker” function. When I attempt to scan the site, It gives me an error saying
>SemrushBot-Desktop couldn’t crawl page due to a network error. Nevertheless, we were able to collect a few general ideas for this page. Please ensure that your page can be accessed by search engine crawlers, and then start optimizing it using our ideas.”
I worked with SemRush support, and when running a CURL command, they timeout after 5 seconds. Both I and the Nexcess support agent (where site is hosted) were able to get through, so I assume it is with a plugin.
When looking at the SemRush crawl console output in dev tools, I get:
>Failed to load resource: net::ERR\_CONNECTION\_TIMED\_OUT
The plugins they have are WP Armour, Wordfence Security, iTheme (now Solid Security), and Really Simple SSL.
All are on the free version, and Nexcess says they do not whitelist and do not have access to php.ini
Even when all security plugins are deactivated, I get the same error.
Has anyone came across a similar issue / have tips on troubleshooting that I am overlooking?
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