We want the feature noindex for subpages back

  • Resolved luboast

    (@luboast)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    why was that feature noindex for subpages removed? Even if Yoast thinks it is “not useful” anymore, I would still like to have the choice myself.

    All our current subpages are getting indexed and “the worlds best seo plugin” does not have a function to resolve that problem? … Please give your users more control over their websites back. I’d like to decide myself whether it is useful or not.

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by luboast.
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  • It’s most unfortunate that Yoast thinks it self as all know buddy of Googles strategies and SEO as well. It’s just so pathetic to understand this we really need no proof. just see the support forum and anyone will tell they don’t even care the least about their free user’s and icing on the top, the premium users as well writing in the forum and no reply is being made by any of this huge FRATERNITY claiming to be the best in SEO market!

    They keep adding features and deleting their own mistake saying all other search engines are fool! Don’t you have the balls to accept that you are the fool here! Thousands are people are using your plugin with a hope for a simple betterment, and with every update you are just making piles of errors and seriously nothing else!

    Who says these features are absolute? You! huh! Give it a break now!

    You are bound to reply all these people with priority, as you earning a fortune from each FREE MEMBERS as well, showing those bloating, foolish Ads! ACT NOW!

    The feature was introduced years ago when there was an issue with Google being able to differentiate subpages from primary pages and they could have been viewed as duplicate content.

    However, nowadays, Google is able to take into account the rel prev & rel next tags and can understand the relationship between content much better.

    I don’t think there is any reason you would want to noindex subpages (simply make sure your titles are set to use the %%page%% template to take in account what page they are on, and you should be more than fine.

    Also, I don’t think they are bound because they don’t make money from ads unless those free users are purchasing their premium plugin.

    MariusG

    (@marius_codeinwp)

    Hi @luboast,

    Unfortunately, there are no plans to bring back the feature to noindex subpages. The fact that all your subpages are getting indexed is not an issue from an SEO point of view. As @destac has mentioned, rel=next and rel=prev make sure Google sends people to the first page in a paginated series.

    Noindexing all these pages leads to a lower amount of crawls for them, which subsequently leads to lower amounts of crawls for older articles.

    However, if you’d like to submit this feature request, the best place to do so is on GitHub.

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