Default Noindex Posts Setting Affecting Blog Page

  • Resolved bward

    (@bward)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    I noticed today our blog page (Settings -> Reading -> “Posts page:”) was giving a noindex tag, even though I had it set as “default” which is to index the page.

    Now for some troubleshooting, I went into SEO Framework; Robot Meta Settings -> Post Type Settings and unchecked “Apply noindex to Posts? – post”

    This fixed the issue, which means Framework is treating our “Posts page” blog page as a post, instead of the page it is.

    I could not leave this setting unchecked, so I checked it once again and manually set our “Posts page” blog page to index instead of the default index and it gave me the proper index tag.

    I found that pretty odd.

    This isn’t a show stopper here, but it take a bit of time to iron out. Not sure if anyone else has ran into this.

    I have more info for troubleshooting, but don’t want to give TMI!

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Happy New Year 🙂

    Thank you for the bug report! The reason this happens is that the blog page is both a page, as well as a post-type-archive for posts.

    I’ve made an internal note on this issue, but I don’t know how to tackle this yet. We either want to relay the actual state via the admin interface (robots setting, quick edit, SEO Bar, etc.)–or, ignore the setting on these “page-as-archive” pages.

    I believe this will also affect the WooCommerce shop page, which could be unintentionally destructive.

    As a workaround to this issue, I confirmed that you can override this state via the page SEO settings, as shown in the attached image.
    The SEO Framework page robots override

    Then, you want to ask Google to recrawl the URL, so it’ll be indexed again ASAP: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812.

    Thread Starter bward

    (@bward)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Happy New Year to you and yours as well!

    Thanks for taking note sir and have a great evening.

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello!

    I fixed this issue in TSF v4.0.5, which has just been released.

    I chose for the blog page to ignore the global post indexing/following/archiving settings. So, the SEO Bar should accurately reflect the automated state now.

    Thread Starter bward

    (@bward)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks so much Sybre.

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