Google Search Console- No: ‘noindex’ detected in ‘robots’ meta tag

  • Resolved muskangarg98

    (@muskangarg98)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    Four pages of my site are not getting indexed. The home page is indexed – https://www.remoteflyer.com/ . I have gone through the previous posts and already
    1. Uncheck the Admin > Settings > Reading > Search Engine Visibility > Discourage search engines from indexing this site.
    2. Admin > SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types > Show [content-type] in search results?
    3. Edited wp_robots_no_robots() and wp_robots_sensitive_page(),in robots-template.php and made noindex to index, and nofollow to follow.
    4. Edited wp_no_robots() and wp_sensitive_page_meta(),in deprecated.php and made noindex to index, and nofollow to follow.
    Still, 4 pages are not indexed. Example- https://remoteflyer.com/?s=mini
    robots.txt is also fine.
    Tried almost everything, yet couldn’t fix it.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @muskangarg98

    You’ve provided an example URL of an internal search page on your website.

    This is actually one of Yoast SEO’s hidden features. Google wants to prevent users from going from a search result in Google to a search result page on a website site. Google, justly, considers that bad user experience.

    You can tell search engines not to include a certain page in their search results by adding a noindex tag to a page. Because of Google’s guidelines, Yoast SEO tells search engines that they should not display your internal search results pages in their search results with a noindex tag. They just tell them not to show these pages in the search results; the links on these pages can still be followed and counted which is better for SEO.

    You can learn more about it here – https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-hidden-features/#search-results

    Thread Starter muskangarg98

    (@muskangarg98)

    I can’t believe I spent so many hours on this. Are all these four links an example URL of an internal search page?
    https://www.remoteflyer.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection
    https://remoteflyer.com/?s=drone+crash
    https://remoteflyer.com/?s=mini
    https://remoteflyer.com/?s=mini+2

    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @muskangarg98

    The first URL seems to be some sort of protected URL for a certain email address, and it was flagged by Cloudflare. We checked the page source and it has the ‘noindex’ tag, so it shouldn’t be indexed, and you probably wouldn’t want the contents of that page to show up in the search results.

    The next 3 URLs are examples of internal search results (/?s=) on your website, and they all are being set to ‘noindex’ as well.

    Thread Starter muskangarg98

    (@muskangarg98)

    Okay, thanks a lot for your help.

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