blog homepage marked noindex

  • Resolved Gabe462

    (@gabe462)


    1 month ago

    The site contains

    <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex, follow’ />

    “Your homepage displays”:?Your latest posts

    “Search engine visibility”: is not checked.

    I’ve tested disabling Yoast, and this removes the <meta> tag with noindex.

    I clicked around extensively through the plugin options and can’t find anything that appears to be causing this. I’ve verified that every published post is set to “Allow search engines to show this content in search results”, and Yes is the default.

    What else should I try?

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  • Thread Starter Gabe462

    (@gabe462)

    I should add that I also tested with all other plugins disabled, and Yoast still added <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex, follow’ /> to the blog.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @gabe462,

    I’m sorry about your experience. If Yoast SEO was adding the noindex tag, the homepage shouldn’t be listed in the page sitemap.

    Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

    Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

    If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

    If you feel uncomfortable doing this yourself or if this does not solve your issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.

    Thread Starter Gabe462

    (@gabe462)

    As I said in my second comment, I’ve tested disabling all plugins. This removes the noindex. when I activate only Yoast, the noindex appears again.

    With only yoast active, I see this

    <!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <meta name='robots' content='noindex, follow' />
    <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ --> <!-- Admin only notice: this page does not show a meta description because it does not have one, either write it for this page specifically or go into the [Yoast SEO - Settings] menu and set up a template. --> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Gabe Herbert" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://gabeherbert.com/" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Gabe Herbert" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <script type="application/ld+json" class="yoast-schema-graph">{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/","url":"https://gabeherbert.com/","name":"Gabe Herbert -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#website"},"about":{"@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#/schema/person/55918cc706f3c6b510e6ebafaebf3deb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#website","url":"https://gabeherbert.com/","name":"Gabe Herbert","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#/schema/person/55918cc706f3c6b510e6ebafaebf3deb"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://gabeherbert.com/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#/schema/person/55918cc706f3c6b510e6ebafaebf3deb","name":"Gabe","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#/schema/person/image/","url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/69ba1f72dcf7d460e5d6623ca5011cab?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/69ba1f72dcf7d460e5d6623ca5011cab?s=96&r=g","caption":"Gabe"},"logo":{"@id":"https://gabeherbert.com/#/schema/person/image/"},"sameAs":["https://gabeherbert.com"]}]}</script> <!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->
    <title>Gabe Herbert</title>

    With all plugins disabled, including mu-plugins, I see this

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en-US">
    <head>
    	<meta charset="UTF-8" />
    	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large' />
    <title>Gabe Herbert</title>

    I also tested switching from twentytwentyfour to twentytwentythree, and see the same.

    Thanks for you help!

    Plugin Support Mushrit Shabnam

    (@611shabnam)

    Hi @gabe462

    I am sorry to learn that our suggestion didn’t help.

    Since checking conflict didn’t solve the issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.

    Thread Starter Gabe462

    (@gabe462)

    I resolved this using the Yoast Test Helper plugin, and following these instructions to reset Yoast indexables.

    https://yoast.com/help/how-to-reset-yoast-indexables/

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Thanks for sharing with us how you resolved the issue.

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