Google Search Console Still Indexing Pages Despite Yoast SEO Settings

  • Resolved kimness

    (@kimness)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hello everyone,

    I’m encountering an issue with my WordPress website (version 6.4.3) where Google Search Console is indexing pages that I’ve explicitly excluded using Yoast SEO settings.

    Here’s the setup:

    • WordPress website with Thrive Themes for content creation, including images and an academy.
    • Using Yoast SEO, I’ve configured the content types settings to exclude Thrive symbols, lightbox, and academy content from indexing. Specifically, I’ve set these options to “Out” in the Yoast SEO settings.
    • Despite these settings, Google Search Console is still giving me 404 errors for pages within my academy and it sees symbols, which should be excluded from indexing according to Yoast SEO.

    For reference, here are two types of pages causing issues:

    1. Example of a page with Thrive symbols (should be excluded): https://floweroflove.love/?post_type=tcb_symbol&p=159 (this one I redirected to homepage)
    2. Example of a page in my academy environment (should be excluded): https://floweroflove.love/module/community/ (ofcourse I can not redirect this one as its part of a course I am giving)

    I’ve checked and rechecked the Yoast SEO settings, ensuring that these content types are indeed set to “Out” for indexing.

    Can anyone offer insights into why Google Search Console might still be indexing these pages despite Yoast SEO settings indicating otherwise? Any suggestions or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you in advance for your help!

    Best regards,

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hello @kimness,

    Thanks for reaching out about your site. Can you share a screenshot showing Google Search Console indexing such pages?

    Both URLs you provided are not included in the sitemap; community returns a 404 error so that can’t be indexed.

    Thread Starter kimness

    (@kimness)

    2 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for your response. I appreciate your attention to this matter. However, the issue persists despite the pages not being included in the sitemap. These pages are part of my online course and are intentionally set to be excluded from search engines. Despite enabling the appropriate settings within Yoast SEO to exclude these pages, they still appear as 404 errors in Google Search Console.

    These pages are situated behind a login environment and should not be accessible to search engines or indexed. Is there any further troubleshooting or steps I can take to ensure these pages remain hidden from search engine indexing?

    Similarly, I’ve enabled the exclusion of symbols through Yoast SEO settings, but they continue to appear in Google search results.

    Thank you,

    Kim

    Thread Starter kimness

    (@kimness)

    2 years, 2 months ago

    Does anyone have an suggestion, what this is happening and how I can change this? Thank you, Kim

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