Noindex tags X roboto help

  • I am learning how to build websites and how to code and I am upset as I noticed my site with 17 pages did not have the main pages indexed on Google and Bing. I reported that to Bing Webmasters and they stated there are noindex tags x roboto on “the header” of each page. I contacted my hosting Godaddy and they claimed to have resolved the problem but when submitting the sitemap back to Bing Webmasters it only finds one URL not all the others. Yoast SEO was contacted and they told me they did not see any evidence of noindex tags on the headers. They told me to go to this forum. I saw a video and don’t know how to interpret itm he suggests there may be tags on the server side:

    with I knew how to remove all the tags and prevent those tags and have the entire site properly indexed professionally like any other site.

    • This topic was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by thewealthiest.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

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    Please provide the path to one of the not indexed pages. You already provided your domain name to logged in users here, so we just need the path if you don’t wish to publicly disclose your domain name any further.

    In any case, it’d likely confirm what Yoast said that there’s no evidence of noindex. If there’s no evidence of noindex in a page’s head section, the only other way to pass noindex is as an X-Robots-Tag response header (not x roboto X-> ). Response headers are not on any web page, it’s part of the data servers send in response to a request. “Header” in regards to web pages can have a number of different meanings, resulting in confusion when no further specifics are offered. It’s very unlikely WP would send a noindex header for select pages. It would only do so if you had the Discourage search engines from indexing this site setting checked, in which case it would do so for all pages.

    It is possible to direct servers to send this header directly, regardless of WP settings. It’s usually done through .htaccess. Check your .htaccess file for any Header add directives that could be responsible. There are other ways to have servers send headers, but it’s unlikely they’d be used for this kind of header. Plus GoDaddy presumably already checked for this.

    I’ve got a similar problem. Using the WordPress 2024 theme and WooCommerce, Google says 386 products have the No-Index meta-tag in the header. I’ve tried two different SEO, neither of which remove it (RankMath and Yoast). Part of the problem is because these are virtual tags, like your robots.txt file, which means we have no control over these. If you’re going to create these tags we’ve got to have some control over them or we lose control of our sites.

    I had a look an an earlier question about these tags where your advisor got completely the wrong end of the stick. Tee question was, as is mine, how do I remove these tags, Your answer was on how to create them,

    So can you please tell us how to get rid of these meta-tags without having to resort to a SEO plugin that might not even work? And can you also please tell us why you even bother to create them in the first place? we WANT these things indexed.

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