Internal search pages – want to index them

  • Resolved nosotrosgroupo

    (@nosotrosgroupo)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I want to try on one of my sites to allow Google to index internal search results pages. It makes sense on my site and other big sites in my niche use it, too.

    Is there any option how to allow indexing internal search pages in Yoast SEO? I know that it noindex these pages by default, but I would like to change this setting. How can I do it?

    Thank you,
    Nosotros

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi,

    Internal search results are pretty much the last pages Google would want to send its visitors to. If you want to ruin a search experience, you link to other search pages, instead of an actual result. But the links on a search result page are still very valuable, you definitely want Google to follow them. So, all links should be followed, and the robots meta setting should be:

    <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”>

    Yoast SEO makes sure your internal search pages are set to ‘noindex’ by default. It’s one of Yoast SEO’s hidden features. This is not an editable setting, because it’s simply how it should be done according to the Google Guidelines, and we fully agree with them on this.

    You can learn more about it here — https://yoast.com/which-pages-noindex-or-nofollow/ & https://yoast.com/internal-search/

    Thread Starter nosotrosgroupo

    (@nosotrosgroupo)

    I actually didn’t ask about what Google or anyone thinks about this, no offense. I know that it makes sense in my case.

    Well, I guess I have to sort it out myself, as always. I bet there is a way to edit it ??

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @nosotrosgroupo We understand if you have a case where you want to change this. However, we can’t offer support on custom code (needed to change (core) features of our plugin). Since we don’t want to take the risk that we break your website by suggesting incorrect or incomplete code, we cannot advise you on how to make such changes. Maybe someone watching these forums can assist you further, but if your topic is inactive for 7 days, we’ll mark it as resolved to keep the overview.

    Thread Starter nosotrosgroupo

    (@nosotrosgroupo)

    Hello,

    understand ?? I’ll try to figure it out. Thank you for your answers guys.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @nosotrosgroupo You’re very welcome. Again, we’ll leave the post open for a week in the event another user here is able to offer you any advice or assistance with the issue, and please let us know if there is anything further we can offer assistance with.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    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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