Rare error, whole sitemap with noindex tag in search console

My website is bedbazaar.nl

Hi @bedbazaar ,

First, we want to say that we understand that it can be distressing having these types of problems on your site.

The Yoast plugin automatically adds a “noindex” tag to the sitemap in the server response headers, in the X-Robots-Tag. We add this tag because you don’t want your sitemap to appear in the search results. However, the URLs in it will still be crawled and indexed by search engines without any issues.

Adding a “noindex” tag to the sitemap is perfectly fine and will not cause any problems, as confirmed by John Mueller from Google

Regarding the meta tag issues, we understand that you are seeing a different title and description in the search results, from the ones you configured in Yoast SEO, is this correct?

If so, please check the following troubleshooting steps, to check that the title and description in the source code of the page matches the one you’ve entered in Yoast.

If the titles and descriptions match, the cause of the issue here is that Google is changing them in the search results, as explained here.

Please let us know if you have any further information.

Hello Marcanor,
Thanks for your quick reply. I think i didnt understood your reply properly. So it becomes now even more worrying and confusing for me.
As you have mentioned that ”We add this noindex tag” But how it is possible that this tag is not added into some other websites. I have tested 2 differet sitemap urls just a few minutes ago in search console, see following link. https://prntscr.com/sj09kq . https://prntscr.com/sj0abd . I cant understand this rule which becomes different for different websites. My site’s ranking is dropped very badly as some of my main high ranked urls lost thr meta titel and meta discriptions in search engines.

@bedbazaar We checked on the sitemap at https://www.bedbazaar.nl/sitemap_index.xml using Curl and confirmed that an X-Robots metatag of ‘noindex’ is being returned:

cbailey$ curl -I https://www.bedbazaar.nl/sitemap_index.xml
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
date: Mon, 18 May 2020 14:20:33 GMT
x-robots-tag: noindex, follow

We also checked on the sitemap at https://www.ranatex.nl/sitemap_index.xml and found that it is not rendering correctly (see image here), which is likely what is causing the X-Robots metatag to not be output. We reviewed the source code of the sitemap and do see that it is being cached (see image here).

We have a guide on how to exclude your site’s sitemaps caching for a variety of plugins and caching types at the following link: https://yoast.com/help/exclude-sitemaps-from-cache/. If you don’t see the type of caching your site is using listed there, you may need to contact your hosting provider for assistance.

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