Yoast SEO adding a “noindex” robots tag to all my pages.

  • Resolved jibarozzibehr

    (@jibarozzibehr)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hello!

    I’m having a problem with Yoast SEO. The plugin is adding a “noindex” in the robots meta tag to all my pages, even though I didn’t set the option to “not show in search engines” in the individual pages and also in the Yoast SEO configuration section. I opened the Yoast SEO assistant and followed the steps again but the plugin keeps adding the tag to all my pages.
    First I deactivated all other plugins but the problem persisted. Then I deactivated Yoast SEO only and the tag disappeared.

    WordPress Reading Settings are also OK.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thank you!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by jibarozzibehr.
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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    @jibarozzibehr Can you please provide us with an example URL, just so that we can review the plugin’s output?

    As for where the setting causing the page to be set to noindex is, we would recommend checking this setting by performing the following actions:

      • In WordPress, go to the Edit screen for a page/post
      • Scroll down to the Yoast Metabox
      • Click on the ‘Advanced’ area
      • For ‘Allow search engines to show this Page in search results?’ make sure this is set to ‘Yes’
      * Note (setting this value to Yes will set meta robots to index and setting No would set meta robots to noindex)

    In addition, you can set pages/posts to be indexed by performing the following actions:

      • In WordPress, go to SEO>Search Appearance>Content Types
      • For Pages set ‘Show Pages in search results’ to ‘Yes’
      • Click ‘Save Changes’

    We also have a guide available on how to set a page/post’s meta robots tag to index/noindex here: https://yoast.com/help/how-do-i-noindex-urls/

    Thread Starter jibarozzibehr

    (@jibarozzibehr)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for your message!
    I already did what you suggested, but the tag still appears in every page.
    This is the website I’m having trouble with: URL.

    Thank you again!

    Plugin Support Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for sharing the relevant website with us. We looked at the relevant website and were able to reproduce the issue on our end. We see that Yoast SEO is generating the noindex robots meta n your site.

    We can confirm that you can remove the noindex robots meta by following the steps given above. If you have tried the relevant suggestion but that didn’t help you with anything, we’re out of clue and as such, we’ll need to take a look at your setup to find out the exact cause of the issue. However, we are unable to do it here since this is a public forum.

    So, if you consider buying Yoast SEO Premium, it will grant you access to our premium support where we can take a look at your setup and offer support through private email.

    Thanks for your understanding!

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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