Global settings not being followed for noindex

  • Resolved Tim

    (@timsthailand)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    In SEOPress’s XML/HTML Sitemap settings I have checked “include” for categories. But, Google Search Console is giving me a “Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’” error for all my categories. When I go to my blog’s edit category page, under SEO-Advanced there is a check in the box for “Do not display this page in search engine results / XML – HTML sitemaps (noindex)” and that box is greyed out so it can’t be changed. So, this means that SEO Press is not following its own global settings. What do I need to do, or is this an SEOPress bug that needs to be fixed?

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  • Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    what’s the URL of your site?

    Check your global meta-robots settings from SEO > Titles and metas (browse each tab).

    https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/manage-meta-robots/

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@timsthailand)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you very much. So, there are two checkboxes you can choose to index/noindex. I found the second one in Titles and Metas under the taxonomies tab.

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    I think you’re confusing the indexing of content via meta robots (SEO > Titles and metas > index / noindex) and adding (or not) content to the sitemap.

    The sitemap is not used to manage the indexing of your content.

    It’s a help for robots to crawl faster your site.

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