The advanced tab (gear icon) inside the Yoast SEO meta box on the edit screen of the item allows administrators and editors to set custom robots information like noindex, nofollow, and other advanced robots settings.
To allow authors access to this tab, go to SEO->General->Features and toggle the Security: no advanced settings for authors to ‘Off’.
The layout may vary as the example above is from a default post type.
Yoast SEO Metabox : Plugins Tab – Googlebot-News index
Yoast SEO: News includes the ability to tell Google News not to index a specific news article. This option is found under the plugins section of the metabox in the ‘Google News’ tab. Learn more about using Yoast SEO: News here.
Noindex All Categories, Tags or Other Taxonomies
If you want to noindex a group of items, enable this feature using the steps below. By default, search pages and 404 pages will be set to noindex, follow.
